Perfectly Preserved 50,000-Year-Old Cave Lion Cub Raises Hopes Of Cloning
Earlier this week , Russia uncover the inordinately well - preserved remains of a cave lion cub , raising new hope of lend this now - extinct subspecies back to life story . It ’s very potential that the cub died sometimes between 20,000 and 50,000 years ago , during the Pleistocene Ice Age , but tests will give experts a more accurate time of dying . The remains were found lay to rest in the permafrost on the cant of the Tirekhtykh River in the Abyisky district of Yakutia , Russia , by local man Boris Berezhnov ....