The wool rhino has recovered from the ice age in Russia

Moscow – A well-preserved glacial wool rhinoceros, with many of its internal organs still intact, has been recovered from the permafrost in the far north of RussiaThe Russian press reported on Wednesday.

The body was revealed to have melted in Yakitia’s permafrost in August, media reported. Scientists hope the Arctic ice roads will become passable to take them to a laboratory for study in January.

It is one of the best preserved specimens from the ice age that have been found to date. The body has most of the soft tissues still intact, including part of the intestines, thick hair and a piece of fat. His horn was next to his body.

Significant discoveries have been made in recent years of mammoths, woolly rhinos, icebergs and cave lions as permafrost melts more and more in large areas of Siberia due to global warming.

Valery Plotnikov, a paleontologist at the regional unit of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said the rhino was probably 3 to 4 years old when he died, according to Yakutia 24 TV.

Plotnikov said the young rhino probably drowned.

Scientists say the body is between 20,000 and 50,000 years old. More accurate dating will be possible once you reach a radiocarbon testing laboratory.

The carcass was found on the banks of the Tirekhtyakh River in Abyisk District, near an area where another young woolly rhino was recovered in 2014. The researchers reported that the specimen, which they named Sasha, was 34,000 years old.