Frozen bird found in Siberia dated 46,000 years old

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In 2018, a well-preserved frozen bird was found in the ground in the Belaya Gora area of north-eastern Siberia. Researchers at the Centre for Palaeogenetics, a new research center at Stockholm University and the Swedish Museum of Natural History, have studied the bird and found that the bird is a 46,000-year-old female horned lark.

Scientists recovered the DNA from the bird. The genetic analysis also suggests that the bird belonged to a population that was a joint ancestor of two sub species of horned lark living today, one in Siberia, and one in the steppe in Mongolia.

The outcome has significance on another level too. During the last Ice Age, the mammoth steppe spread out over northern Europe and Asia. The steppe was home to now-extinct species, for example, the wooly mammoth and the wooly rhinoceros. As indicated by one hypothesis, this ecosystem was a mosaic of habitats, for example, steppe, tundra, and coniferous forest. Toward the finish of the last Ice Age, the mammoth steppe was divided into the biotopes we know today – tundra in the north, taiga in the middle, and steppe in the south.

The bird’s remarkable condition is primarily thanks to its frozen burial site, but Dussex admits this particular case is extraordinary.

“The fact that such a small and fragile specimen was near intact also suggests that dirt/mud must have been deposited gradually, or at least that the ground was relatively stable so that the bird’s carcass was preserved in a state very close to its time of death,” he said.

 

Sources: https://www.techexplorist.com/well-preserved-frozen-bird-found-siberia-46000-years-old/30312/, https://nypost.com/2020/02/21/frozen-bird-discovered-in-siberia-is-46000-years-old

Original study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-020-0806-7

[whore 11,447]

Wow, for even the feathers to be preserved is incredible. I'll never understand how they can date something like that though 

[PunkTheFunk 125,703]

Literally found dead in a ditch.

[Killa 18,829]

God pigeons are really resilient

[TimisaMonster 31,073]

It's extremely well preserved...looks like it died a week ago

 

[NextLevelMonster 6]

crazy how they can identify how long ago it had been dead for.

[Lord Temptation 11,209]

Make it make sense 

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Just now, TimisaMonster said:

It's extremely well preserved...looks like it died a week ago

 

This puppy is also 28,000 years old and is thought to either be one of the first dogs to evolve from wolves, or a evolutinary link between wolves and dogs. The fact that is still adorable. 

[AmericanxDream 2,049]

But earth is only around 5000 years old... ?

[Ladey Gaygay 9,321]

1 minute ago, Oshawott said:

But earth is only around 5000 years old... ?

[Gagaism 12,471]

These things are becoming really interesting. First was those bacteria they found out in the melting ice, now this. 

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9 minutes ago, Oshawott said:

But earth is only around 5000 years old... ?

[River 127,556]

Siberia is a treasure of history

There's also the baby woolly mammoth

 

 

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2 minutes ago, River said:

Siberia is a treasure of history

There's also the baby woolly mammoth

 

 

Spoiler

 

Wolf (40,000 years old)

Cave lion cub (55,000 years)

Baby Horse (40,000 years)

 

 

[River 127,556]

6 minutes ago, FfFfFfFF said:

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Wolf (40,000 years old)

Cave lion cub (55,000 years)

Baby Horse (40,000 years)

 

 

It's really amazing

I actually got the chance to touch a Mammoth fur during my studies