Preliminary analyses of the frozen mummies of mammoth ( Mammuthus primigenius), bison ( Bison priscus) and horse ( Equus sp.) from the Yana‐Indigirka Lowland, Yakutia, Russia

• Published in: Integrative Zoology
• Main Authors: BOESKOROV, Gennady G., POTAPOVA, Olga R., MASHCHENKO, Eugeny N., PROTOPOPOV, Albert V., KUZNETSOVA, Tatyana V., AGENBROAD, Larry, TIKHONOV, Alexey N.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2014
• Subjects: Indigirka; permafrost; Yakutia; Siberia
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1749-4877.12079; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2F1749-4877.12079; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1749-4877.12079

Abstract The frozen bodies of a young woolly mammoth ( Mammuthus primigenius ), a wild horse ( Equus sp.) and a steppe bison ( Bison priscus ) were recently found in the northern Yakutia (northeastern Siberia). All specimens have preserved bones, skin and soft tissues. Whereas the woolly mammoth and...