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50,000-Year-Old Extinct Lion Found Frozen In The Siberian Permafrost With Its Head Resting On Its Paw
The permafrost of Siberia has the perfect conditions to preserve biological specimens for tens of thousands of years.
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Neanderthals Repurposed Cave Lion Bones Into “Multifunctional Tools” 130,000 Years Ago
Neanderthals living in what is now Belgium made a kind of prehistoric Swiss Army Knife from the bones of a cave lion some 130 ...
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Genetic Diversity and Relationships of Living and Extinct Lions
Lions (Panthera leo) are a widely distributed group of terrestrial mammals, ranging during the Pleistocene (from about 2,580,000 to 11,700 years ago) in Eurasia, Africa, and North America, with ...
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South Korean Scientists Want to Genetically Resurrect an ... - Inverse
The last Panthera leo spelaea, a big cat known not-quite-popularly as the Cave Lion, walked the earth about 10,000 years ago. Now, a team of researchers in South Korea want to bring it back. A ...