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Frozen Lions Reveal Animal Kingdom of the Past

15/08/2021 04:24 PM | Click to read full article

Scientists in Russia have found what is believed to be the best preserved specimen of a 43,000-year-old cave lion cub. They call this cub Boris, and estimate he was about 1 month old. If he had lived to be full-grown, Boris would have been larger than a modern-day lion.

Russia’s frozen terrain has kept much of this primordial animal life intact, but climate change and warming temperatures are exposing more of the past.

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