Jun 30, 2023
The cave has been untouched for around 42,000 years. It also contained the bones and teeth of hyena pups, suggesting they raised their young
My newest article for LiveScience is about a ton of Pleistocene bones found in a cave in Siberia!
We're talking:
Mammoths
Horses
Wooly Rhinos
Wooly Bison
Brown Bears
Wolves
Yaks
Deer
Gazelles
Rodents
Birds
Fish
Frogs
and of course, cave hyenas! Including baby ones!
All the bones are chewed up too
(Image credit: V. S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy)