The frozen wastes of Russia have long preserved ancient animals and have yielded many important Ice Age finds. Recently, reindeer herders came across a preserved Ice Age bear . This is the first adult Ice Age bear worldwide to be found in near perfect condition. This chance discovery is providing researchers with new insights into the Ice Age .
The frozen Ice Age bear body was found by indigenous reindeer herders on Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Island, the largest of the Lyakhovsky Islands. These desolate islands form part of the New Siberian Island Archipelago, located between the East Siberian Sea and the Laptev Sea. The island is within the Arctic Circle and many deposits of fossil ivory, mainly from mammoths, have been found on the Lyakhovsky Islands in the past. However, the discovery of the Ice Age bear is a first. Lena Grigorieva, a leading Russian expert on the Ice Age told The Siberian Times that “Today this is the first and only find of its kind - a whole bear carcass with soft tissues.”
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