Extinct ice age bovine discovered in Siberian cave
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An international team of researchers has discovered in southern Siberia an unknown extinct bovine species that inhabited the area during the last Ice Age. Although fossils do not show hunting marks, scientists do not rule out that the animal, related to modern yaks, served as a dinner not only to the anatomically modern man, but also to the Neanderthals and their mysterious cousins Denisovanos, who alternated in the region, crossing at different…
Ghost Bovine: Ancient DNA Reveals Unknown Extinct Yak Relative from Ice Age
Ancient DNA from unidentifiable bone fragments in Denisova Cave has revealed a previously unknown extinct bovine species related to yaks that lived in southern Siberia before and during the last Ice Age.
Paleogenetics may have discovered a previously unknown species of yak that was living on Altai in the age of playstone, and researchers have discovered that a number of bones, mostly dug up in the Deniz cave, belonged to large horny animals whose evolutionary line separated from the ancestors of modern yaks some 400,000 years ago, while uninformative bones could belong to fossilized Baikal yaks, described only in morphology, and the discovery is…
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