Scientists have uncovered a woolly rhino mummy so well preserved in the Russian permafrost for more than 32,000 years that its skin and fur are still intact.
Scientists have uncovered a woolly rhino so well preserved in the Russian permafrost for more than 32,000 years that its skin and fur are still intact. This woolly rhino died when it was about four years old and that age, combined with its good state of preservation, has allowed scientists to learn more about the now-extinct species.
Once this woolly rhino died, it lay frozen in permafrost until a team of Russian scientists from research institutions in Yakutsk and Moscow discovered it in August 2020 on the banks of the Tirekhtyakh River. The study did not detail exactly how the remains were found but in that area of Siberia, Dalén explained, local Russians tunnel into the permafrost looking for mammoth tusks to sell.
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