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Frozen in the Flesh: Ice Age Mummies

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( This post was last modified: 11-08-2020, 10:13 AM by KRA123 )

This is a thread primarily intended to catalogue preserved mummies of Pleistocene animals - one of the very best tools we have for understanding the appearance, ecology and perhaps even the genetics of these extinct creatures. Despite the thread title, entries don't have to be perfectly preserved mummies, any preserved partial or complete non-skeletal remains will do. Preservation also does not also have to be in ice, but can also be through petrification or dehydration, etc.  Please indicate the species as the first line in your posts and keep all post about a single species, for the sake of making things more organized. 
I don't have the time to add many post right now, but I will come back eventually to add as many as I can.

So, to get the catalogue started:

Woolly Rhino (Coelodonta antiquitatis):

Recent find in Yakutia, Russia. I don't think it's been published yet. Photos from Vitalik Isaev's Facebook page.

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Sasha the Baby Woolly Rhino

Found in Yakutia, Russia, around 1000 years old (Source)

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The above images  are from a Daily Mail article which relates that the rhino is actually thought to have lived lived around 34000 years ago, and is around 3-4 years old. It's not clear if the calf is a male or a female.

2007 Woolly Rhino Mummy Find
 Frozen carcass of a female woolly rhino, ~39,000 years old; discovered by gold miners in the lower Kolyma River, far eastern Siberia. The total weight of the mummified corpse, including the skull, horns, remains of two right legs and other bones found separately, is approximately 1000 kg, the live animal was estimated to have weighed tat least 1.5 tons (source).


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Photograph by Vladimir Filippov

Starunia Woolly Rhinos

Several woolly rhino mummies have been found preserved in minerals and wax in Starunia, Poland.
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