These pictures of Intact Ice Age cave bear 22,000 to 39,500 years-old found in Arctic Russia are stunning

Reindeer herders in Russia have found an immaculately preserved carcass of an Ice cave bear, with its teeth and even its se intact.

remains, revealed by melting permafrost, were discovered on Great Lyakhovsky Island.

island is largest of Lyakhovsky Islands, part of New Siberian Islands archipelago between Laptev Sea and East Siberian Sea.

Previously, scientists only h been able to discover bones of cave bears that became extinct 15,000 years ago.

rth-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk is premier centre for research into woolly mammoths and or prehistoric species.

Scientists re have hailed find as ground-breaking.

le researcher at Zoological Museum of Moscow's State University echoed ir excitement, saying bear's discovery was "unique".

A preliminary analysis indicated that ult bear lived 22,000 to 39,500 years ago.

Recent years have seen major discoveries of mammoths, woolly rhis, Ice foal, several puppies and Cave Lion cubs as permafrost melts.

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