Oui le permafrost fond, livrant
des bombes de méthane expulsé, comme un canon, depuis des trous bien ronds. Et voilà que surgit la momie
intacte d’un ours des cavernes, très bien conservé, à tel point que l’on rêve
d’en extraire l’ADN… ! Nous vivons une époque extraordinaire qui voit se
terminer un monde, tout en en exhumant des morceaux disparus depuis 40.000
ans ! Vous vous rendez compte si on pouvait récupérer l’engin, et
l’exposer à côté d’un squelette retrouvé à Gargas ?
Pour rester
authentique, voici l’article en Anglais, plus facile à lire que le Russe
d’origine !
By Anna Liesowska12 September 2020
Separately at least one preserved
carcass of a cave bear cub found on the mainland of Yakutia, with scientists
hopeful of obtaining its DNA.
Unique discovery of the perfectly
preserved extinct cave bear showing its teeth after up to 39,000 years.
Scientist Lena Grigorieva said of the island discovery of the adult beast : « Today this is the first and only find of its kind - a whole bear carcass with soft tissues. 'It is completely preserved, with all internal organs in place including even its nose. “Previously, only skulls and bones were found. This find is of great importance for the whole world. »
The cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) is
a prehistoric species or subspecies that lived in Eurasia in the Middle and
Late Pleistocene period and became extinct about 15,000 years ago.
According to the rough
preliminary suggestions the bear could live in Karginsky interglacial (this was
the period between 22,000 and 39,500 years).
« It is necessary to carry out radiocarbon analysis to determine
the precise age of the bear, » said senior researcher Maxim Cheprasov
from the Mammoth Museum laboratory in Yakutsk. On s’en serait douté j’espère
qu’ils ne vont pas trainer à faire cette datation !
Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Island, or
Great Lyakhovsky, is the largest of the Lyakhovsky Islands belonging to the New
Siberian Islands archipelago between the Laptev Sea and the East Siberian Sea
in northern Russia.
'A scientific programme for its
comprehensive study will be prepared. We will have to study the carcass of a
bear using all modern scientific research methods - molecular genetic,
cellular, microbiological and others.
« The research is planned on as large a scale as in the study of
the famous Malolyakhovsky mammoth, » said Dr Grigorieva, leading
researcher of the International Centre for Collective Use of Molecular
Paleontology at the NEFU’s Institute of Applied Ecology of the North.
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| voilà un bébé momifié lui aussi |
Comme quoi en cherchant des mammouths,
On trouve des ours, sortis de leur caverne !
Un rare effet positif du réchauffement climatique !
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| ici l'équipe de chercheurs a trouvé un poulain |
