10,000 Year Old Preserved Frozen Cave Lions Found In Siberia.
 
   
 

 
   
The discovery of the ancient predator was made this past summer in the Sakha Republic, also known as Yakutia. The cave lions were nearly perfectly preserved in permafrost. 

Paleontologists will also show other Pleistocene animals preserved by ice in this vast region, the largest and coldest in the Russian Federation, along with the two lions.  Among these will be the famous woolly mammoth Yuka, the 'Oimyakon' mammoth, the carcass of a Kolyma woolly rhinoceros, and Yukagir bison and horses.

The cave lions - Panthera spelaea (Goldfuss) - lived during Middle and Late Pleistocene times on the Eurasian continent, from the British Isles to Chukotka in the extreme east of Russia, and they also roamed Alaska and northwestern Canada. The extinct creatures were close relatives of modern Afro-Asiatic lion.

Finds of their remains are rare: "They are best preserved ever unearthed in the world."

 
 

        

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