A well-preserved ice age woolly rhino with many of its internal organs still intact has been recovered from permafrost in Russia's extreme north. Russian media reported Wednesday that the carcass was revealed by melting permafrost in Yakutia in Russia's far northeast in August. It's among the best-preserved specimens of the ice age animal found to date. Recent years have seen major discoveries of mammoths, woolly rhinos, an ice age foal and cave lion cubs as the permafrost increasingly melts across vast areas of Siberia due to global warming. The carcass was found on the bank of the Tirekhtyakh river in the Abyisk district, close to the area where another young woolly rhino was recovered in 2014.

Source: CBC News December 30, 2020 18:37 UTC