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First Frozen Baby Woolly Rhino Discovered In Siberia

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Demoncarnotaur

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Via Huffington Post

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Scientists are going gaga over the recent discovery of a baby woolly rhino.

The pristine specimen of the tiny extinct rhino--the only one of its type ever found--was discovered in permafrost along the bank of a stream in Siberia's Sakha Republic, The Siberian Times reported.

"At first we thought it was a reindeer's carcass, but after it thawed and fell down we saw a horn on its upper jaw and realized it must be a rhino," Alexander 'Sasha' Banderov, the hunter who made the discovery, told the Times. "The part of the carcass that stuck out of the ice was eaten by wild animals, but the rest of it was inside the permafrost and preserved well."

Scientists estimate that the rhino--which has been dubbed Sasha--was 18 months old when it died some 10,000 years ago, according to the Times. The specimen includes the animal's wool, an ear, an eye, nostrils, and skull and mouth.

"We are hoping Sasha the rhino will give us a lot of answers to questions of how they grew and developed, what conditions they lived in, and which of the modern day animals is the closest to them," Albert Protopopov, head of the Mammoth Fauna Department at the Academy of Sciences in Sakha Republic, told the Times. "We will concentrate on the DNA, because the carcass was kept frozen and chances are high we will get a better preserved DNA. We are hoping to report first results in a week or two."

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Amazing news.
 
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KnockOneOff

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Will be interesting to see what they find in the coming years if this global warming stuff happens at the rate they say!

Must be some interesting stuff frozen in there
 
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18-Volt

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I hope they were closely related to african rhinos so they can find a surrogate mother. Even if they do, the regenerated baby won't look like an actual woolly rhino.
 
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RatskyWatsky

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Wow, it looks like it was really well preserved. That's so cool. We have a - real - picture of something that went extinct thousands of years ago!
 
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MisterGrey3000

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Damn that's cool!
It's such a clear picture of the past.
Man...too bad it's not very likely that we'll ever see a non-avian dinosaur that is that well preserved.
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Heshinsi

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Jurassic Park, but with prehistoric mammals instead of dinosaurs, would work. All we have to do is clone these buggers, and it's instant cash in the bank.
 
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studyguy

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Only glanced and saw "Baby Woolly Rhino Discovered" before punching into the thread. Sad to say I was expecting baby rhino gifs. Someone get Jurrasic Park going.
 
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