42,000-Year-Old Baby Horse buried under the permafrost. .

 

Some abandoned places  have mymysteries. Explorers  have presented a unique discovery made in the Batagai crater in Yakutia. Researchers from the Yakutian North-Eastern Federal University said the regular frosts in the Batagai depression kept the cub in excellent condition.

 'The bones are roughly two months old; It is 98cm tall at the shoulder.

   "Even the preserved hair, which is incredibly rare for such an ancient find, has no damage to the calf's carcass.



  'This was called the Lenskaya or Lena horse (Equus lenensis), which was genetically different from those now living in Yakut

   "I want to emphasize that this is the calf of a species of horse that populated Yakutia between 30,000 and 40,000 years ago," said Semyon Grigoriev, head of the Yakutia Mammoth Museum.

 Experts took samples of hair, fluids, biological fluids and cover soil for a range of tests.

  “We study the contents of the calf's gut to understand its diet.  An autopsy will be conducted later," Grigoriev said.

  "The calf lived approximately 30,000 to 40,000 years ago, but we need to conduct a whole complex of studies on it," Savvinov said.

  Grigory Savvinov, deputy head of the North-Eastern Federal University, said the cub may have been caught in a natural trap.

  Experts who participated in the expedition offered a version that the cub drowned after being caught in some kind of natural trap.




An international Russian-Japanese team of paleontological expeditions worked from August 9-14 in the Batagai depression and in the Yunyugen area of ​​the Verkhoyansky district of Yakutia.

  They reported finding the cub on August 11th, and on August 13th they announced that they had found a massive skeleton with some tissue in

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