Posted on 11/16/2017 10:22:05 AM PST by wildbill
A prehistoric lion cub has been found in permafrost on the bank of Tirekhtykh River of the Abyisky district of Yakutia by local resident Boris Berezhnov. The young beast's head was resting on a paw in frozen ground for up to 50,000 years, as shown in these amazing first pictures.
The preservation is so good that it raises hopes of cloning the species back to life, he said.
The discovery is seen as better preserved than two tiny cave lion cubs found in the same Siberian region in 2015.
(Excerpt) Read more at ancient-origins.net ...
Whoops. Just remembered it wrong. Must have been thinking of Grover Krantz. Definitely GK is dead.
I think Ted Holiday was interested in cat cryptids, too; though he concentrated on British big-cat stories.
Poor thing. Hate that it froze to death.
Yeah!
No shortage of tree huggers...
Actually, Sunken Civ and I and a few others used to bring some humor to this site with puns and such. It got really low as we struggled to top the other guy’s pun. :-)
Last year, FR got way too serious because of the election and got really hard on non-believers and free thinkers.
So keep it up, and maybe we can go back to a more friendly time.
Some of the jokes on FR over the years have been so funny they made my face hurt from laughing so hard.
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