A team of Russian scientists recently examined something extremely unusual: the frozen body of a brown bear that lived thousands of years ago. The cold preserved the body almost perfectly in the frozen lands of eastern Siberia for almost 3,500 years. Maxim Cheprasov is the laboratory chief at the Lazarev Mammoth Museum Laboratory at the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk, eastern Siberia. This find is absolutely unique: the complete body of an ancient brown bear, he said. In 2020, reindeer herders found the female bear on an island in the Arctic Ocean. Part of the animal was sticking out of the frozen ground, or permafrost, on Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Island. The island is around 4,600 kilometers east of Moscow. Because it was found just east of the Bolshoy Etherican River, it has been named the Etherican brown bear.
Title: Scientists Study Brown Bear Frozen for 3,500 Years
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data-start-time='24833' data-end-time='37604'>Maxim Cheprasov is the laboratory chief at the Lazarev Mammoth Museum Laboratory at the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk, eastern Siberia. </span> <span data-start-time='37604' data-end-time='45938'>This find is absolutely unique: the complete body of an ancient brown bear, he said.</span> <span data-start-time='45938' data-end-time='53313'>In 2020, reindeer herders found the female bear on an island in the Arctic Ocean. </span> <span data-start-time='53313' data-end-time='61021'>Part of the animal was sticking out of the frozen ground, or permafrost, on Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Island. </span> <span data-start-time='61021' data-end-time='67167'>The island is around 4,600 kilometers east of Moscow.</span> <span data-start-time='67167' data-end-time='76833'>Because it was found just east of the Bolshoy Etherican River, it has been named the Etherican brown bear.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' 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