Newborn stabbing 32,000 years old found in Siberian ice – Why is it considered a world-class discovery

The newborn knife is so small that it fits into a palm, but its discovery, after 32,000 years, is considered to be of cosmohistoric importance to them. The puppy was about three weeks old when she died, in today’s northeastern Russia. Thanks to the permanent frozen subsoil of the area, it was maintained until today in a very good condition astonishing paleontologists. Scientists from the Yakutia Academy of Sciences, in the Russian Far East, said this is a unique find. “Nowhere else has he been found in such a good condition,” commented Eisen Klimowski, one of the authors of the study on the feline published this month in Scientific Reports. Unlike the knife skeletons found in Texas, the Siberian feline still retains its dark brown hair. “It’s the first find to show the world how it really was” the knife teeth, said Klimowski, who works in the Mammoth Fauna Study Department at the Yakutsk institute. “It unlocks the great secret of nature, in a way,” he added. Researchers found the knife tooth four years ago, while digging up excavations to dig up mammoth tusks near the Badjaricha River. The Saha or Yakutia Republic, wet by the Arctic Ocean, is a vast area with swamps and forests, larger than Argentina. 95% of its soil is covered by permafrost (permanently frozen underground). The rise in temperature due to climate change melts the permafrost, resulting in revealed animal remains and other prehistoric traces. Early this year Yakutsk institute scientists studied a 44,000 – year – old wolf whose bones were found in the melted tundra ice. Yakutia’s feline belongs to the genus of homotherias, living in North America, Eurasia, and Africa some 4 million years ago, up to 12,000 years ago. Adult animals were the size of a lion and had large, toothed cutters. Albert Protopopov, the head of the Mammoth fauna department, also involved in writing the study, said discovery is a blessing for paleontologists around the world. “It really felt,” he told the Reuters agency.