03 Jan 2021

Most Complete Ever Wooly Rhino Found in Siberia

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A shockingly well-preserved woolly rhinoceros has emerged from the thawing muck of the Russian permafrost, reports Valeria Sukhova for the Siberian Times.

Valerii Plotnikov, a mammoth researcher at the Russian Academy of Sciences, tells RT’s Jonny Tickle that this may be the best-preserved example of the extinct Ice Age mammal ever found.

“There are soft tissues in the back of the carcass, possibly genitals and part of the intestine,” he tells RT. “This makes it possible to study the excreta, which will allow us to reconstruct the paleoenvironment of that period.”

Plotnikov tells local Russian outlet Yakutia 24 that the woolly rhino specimen includes all four limbs, its horn and even some of its woolly coat, according to report from Reuters. The scientist also says wear marks on the horn suggest the creature may have used its bony protrusion to gather food, perhaps scraping away snow to reach tender greenery underneath.

Wear marks on the horn suggest the creature may have used its bony protrusion to gather food, perhaps scraping away snow to reach tender greenery underneath.

Plotnikov tells the Siberian Times that the animal looks to have died young at three or four years of age and likely drowned. “The gender of the animal is still unknown,” he adds.

The prehistoric beast was found in the Yakutia region in August and is thought to have roamed the Arctic plains between 20,000 and 50,000 years ago, Plotnikov tells the Siberian Times. The Associated Press reports that radiocarbon dating tests should deliver a more precise estimate of its age once the ancient carcass reaches a lab.

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Jerryskids

So how does this work, that 20,000 to 50,000 years ago a woolly rhinoceros is just wandering around minding its own business when suddenly it drops dead, falls into the permafrost and its body remains buried there for the next unknown millennia? Presumably, the climate was such that it supported life, meaning it was warmer then than it is now, yet the woolly mammoth froze before its body had time to rot, indicating a very sudden drop in temperature. Yet we are assured by the climate change experts that the last century or so has seen an unprecedentedly rapid rise in temperature – a degree or so over a century. Is it possible that the Earth’s climate in the past has shifted much more rapidly and much more extremely than what we’ve been led to believe? And that maybe these climate change alarmists don’t actually know what they’re talking about?



Fusil Darne

I won’t pretend to defend the alarmists, but, a Wooly Rino is wooly for a reason. It could have died as a result of a flood, or, likewise have been preserved during one.
Who knows? But, climate change happens, just not for reasons that have anything to do with people.



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