The female cub, named Sparta, may even have traces of her mother's milk inside and still had her fur, internal organs and skeleton when she was discovered.
A remarkably well-preserved cave lion cub found in Siberia's permafrost lived 28,000 years ago and may have traces of its mother's milk inside, scientists have said.
The female cub, named Sparta, was found at the Semyuelyakh River in Russia's Yakutia region in 2018, and a second lion cub called Boris was found the year before, according to a study published in the Quaternary science journal. Valery Plotnikov, one of the study's authors, has said Sparta was so well preserved that she still had her fur, internal organs and skeleton."Maybe, we hope, some disintegrated parts of the mother's milk . Because if we have that, we can understand what its mother's diet was."Sparta and Boris, a male cub, were found just 15m away from each other, but are not only from different litters, they were also born thousands of years apart.
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