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[ReAxion]

The expression on its face is hilarious to me.

 

[Acidote]

Spare no expense.

Except in IT. Don't invest much there.

 

[Machina]

Wait is this a baby Sabretooth or just a normal Lion more comparable to ones living today?

Because if it is Sabretooth, CLONE THAT BITCH.

 

[ThatStupidLion]

freezing to death would be terrible, but might be worth it knowing a future civilization could discover my body so well preserved.

it's like the anticremation.

rather than returning to the earth you return to civilization/a museum

 

[Darkgran]

We are being lied to. How can these be 10,000 years old when the earth is only 6,000 years old?

 

[Cimarron]

Clone it.

This.
I wonder how long before they find presrved neandertals and denisovians. Evn hobbits!

 

[LookAtMeGo]

Humans have caused enough extinctions or endangered enough animals. Its time we bring some back.

 

[Zips]

Awww - poor cubs. Kindof sad

Cool as a discovery though.

 

[OnPoint]

 

[bengraven]

yay for global warming!

 

[Boem]

So I never really looked into cave drawings, but man that little shot you posted is impressive. Is that real? I never knew early man was capable of drawing so accurately and life-like. Almost like they made, in their own way, a scientific study of these animals. That's really blowing my mind right now.

I'm so sad we'll never be able to find out what life really was like for them, how they perceived beauty (which they must have been able too, given that we know they were into art), how they perceived the world around them.

I'll be spending the rest of my night researching this stuff now.

 

[SpaceWolf]

So I never really looked into cave drawings, but man that little shot you posted is impressive. Is that real? I never knew early man was capable of drawing so accurately and life-like. Almost like they made, in their own way, a scientific study of these animals. That's really blowing my mind right now.

I'm in exactly the same boat. I'm absolutely stunned if that's a real photo. I always thought cave drawings were crude at best, not sketches that wouldn't look out of place at an art school.

 

[MWS Natural]

Oh yeah...well where is the full dinosaur at??

 

[Nekofrog]

thanks gaf

now every time i see a thread start with "10,000 year old" or any number close to that the first thing that comes to my head is loli demons

 

[maxcriden]

I don't see any proof they're not just asleep. I choose to believe they're just taking a long nap. Anything that cute should be alive.

 

[AlexMogil]

 

[U2NUMB]

Even if we could wake him someone would have to tell him "Nope sorry, cubs still have not won"




Very cool discovery!

 

[Dennis]

Please tell me wife....I'm a lion cub.

 

[Kraftwerk]

amazing discovery.

 

[Yrael]

So I never really looked into cave drawings, but man that little shot you posted is impressive. Is that real? I never knew early man was capable of drawing so accurately and life-like. Almost like they made, in their own way, a scientific study of these animals. That's really blowing my mind right now.

I'm so sad we'll never be able to find out what life really was like for them, how they perceived beauty (which they must have been able too, given that we know they were into art), how they perceived the world around them.

I'll be spending the rest of my night researching this stuff now.

Yeah, the drawings in Chauvet cave are spectacular. They are probably about 30,000 years old.

 

[Amalthea]

Cloning fun fact: The first extinct species to be cloned was the Iberian Ibex (some sort of goat) in 2009 wich only went extinct in 2000. It lived for about 6 minutes.

 

[Drencrom]

We need to make some progress so that we can clone these damn animals already.

 

[HK-47]

I mean 10000 year old lion cubs are cool but not as cool as that cave art. Wow.

 

[Cheesecakebobby]

Yeah, the drawings in Chauvet cave are spectacular. They are probably about 30,000 years old.

They really are and I'm pretty sure Netflix has the documentary Herzog made, Cave of Forgotten Dreams I think it was called?

If I'm not mistaken, many archaeologists think it might represent a peak in symbolic painting as a lot of later cave painting finds are not as sophisticated.

 

[SaganIsGOAT]

That cub sure knew how to chill out.

Hahaha

 

[takriel]

But were you there?

 

[Alx]

The talent of French artists goes waaaaaay back.
But seriously I had the same reaction at the drawing of the lion face. It goes much further than just drawing the outline of the animal, there are shapes and volumes (watch the cheeks for example) like a modern artist would draw them.

 

[El'Kharn]

That's so lonely. For 10,000 years that cub in the picture laid there motionless in the dark, looking the same today as it did when George Washington was still a kid shitting his diapers, when egyptians were first building the pyramids, before writing was even invented. It's from around the time that humans stopped being hunter gatherers and figured out that agriculture was maybe a good thing. Every moment of your life and beyond it was in there.

Crazy. Makes me wonder what else has been hiding out there in the world all this time.

Amazingly well put

 

[takriel]

Who's gonna eat its flesh for a few million dollars?

 

[nubbe]

amazing
now clone it

 

[Mr. Enigma]

can we eat it

IT'S FUCKING FROZEN!

 

[Captain Tuttle]

I love to be reminded that there are still great discoveries like to be found on earth.

 

[Stereogatari]

I was born in Yakutsk, Siberia. If I had stayed there, this is the kind of shit I'd want to be doing: hunting for preserved prehistoric animal remains.

Are you an ethnic Yakut?

 

[Log4Girlz]

Clearly a hoax. Can't be older than 6k.

They're lion

 

[CountAntonius]

 

[Cronox]

With the way climate change is going I expect we'll be discovering a lot of frozen animals in the future. Yaknow, as things melt and we head into the post-apocalyptic future. But our museums will have better exhibits, so it's all worth it.

 

[BibiMaghoo]

CountAntonius
The black heart
(Today, 09:52 AM)

 

[Speevy]

Simba, everything the light touches is our kingdom.

"Dad, what's that frozen place?"

You must never go there.

 

[Banjotanooki]

Ahhh, the joys if having everyone on a Japanese train look at you as you're laughing hysterically.

Thanks for that, haha.

 

[Bulbasaur]

Amazing find. I hope to hear the account of its discovery.

 

[Log4Girlz]

This is what happens when you watch Frozen right after Lion King.

 

[Razmos]

inb4 its body releases some kind of ancient super virus

 

[YourMaster]

Very cool. Have other northern countries been making any efforts to find preserved animals like this? I would think that Canada would have a lot but I haven't heard anything here.

Actually when bears come out of hibernation there the first thing they do is scavenge for newly defrosted carcasses, many of which the same as as this one. They are still good to eat.
They have a great sense of smell, so they are a lot more skilled and motivated as humans are to find the remains.

 

[silva1991]

It's mouth and nose reminds me of...

 

[LegendofJoe]

It would be amazing to travel back to that time period and beyond to see how homo sapiens interacted with other hominid species. The evidence we have concludes that both Homo floresiensis (Hobbits) and Homo neanderthalensis (Neanderthals) were alive when we migrated out of Africa. There are likely other offshoot species of homo erectus (like the Hobbit species) that were alive then as well that we just haven't found evidence of yet.

I should have become a paleontologist.

edit: Also homo erectus may have lived for a period of almost 2 million years. We've only been around for 200 thousand years.

 

[Walpurgis]

He was only waiting for The Last Guardian.

 

[spindashing]

ayyy lmao

 

[ManUnkindH]

We are being lied to. How can these be 10,000 years old when the earth is only 6,000 years old?

u crazy mate? Earth was born exactly 2015 years ago.

 

[Josh7289]

So that's an extinct animal species. What an astounding discovery and phenomenon.

 

[PlayALLtheGames]

Are you an ethnic Yakut?

No. My mom is Ukranian and my dad is originally from some other part of Russia, I don't even remember now. I don't recall how she ended up there but my dad was sent to a Siberian labor camp for deserting the Russian army. They met when he got out. I have brown hair and just look like a typical white dude.