Perfectly preserved Ice Age cave bear found in Arctic Russia

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Perfectly preserved Ice Age cave bear found in Arctic RussiaReindeer herders in a Russian Arctic archipelago have found an immaculately preserved carcass of an Ice Age cave bear, researchers said Monday. The find, revealed by the melting permafrost, was discovered on the Lyakhovsky Islands with its teeth and even its nose intact. Previously scientists only had been able to discover the bones of cave bears that became extinct 15,000 years ago.


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