![]() ![]() Pictures: Sakha Academy of Sciences, Anastasia Loginova The woolly rhino soon after it was discovered and at an exhibition in Moscow. In Russia, Sasha is a name for either a girl or boy. It is not known whether the remains belong to a male or female as the internal organs of the animal did not survive. The stubs of the horns of the ancient beast are clearly visible, too. Yet it is the same size as an 18 month old modern animal in other words, the long-gone Siberian rhinos were far larger than those now living, for example, in Africa. ![]() ![]() This baby rhinoceros was some seven months old when it died, according to analyses of its teeth. Pictures: Anastasia Loginova, Sakha ACademy of Sciences The baby rhino at an exhibition in Moscow and earlier in Yakutsk. Initially when it was found, scientists said the colour was ‘light grey’ but after cleaning up the animal, they found an altogether different hue. One is the colour of Sasha’s thick hairy curls, described by one expert as ‘strawberry blond’, and definitely very different from the familiar slate grey of today white rhinos in Africa. Scientists have been busy studying the animal - and have unearthed some surprises. Now embalmed to show the creature’s real appearance in Paleolithic times, the ancient mammal went briefly on display in Moscow. Picture: Anastasia LoginovaĬalled Sasha after a man who discovered it, these unique remains were dug from the permafrost in 2014 in the Siberian region of Yakutia, officially called the Sakha Republic. ![]()
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