Scientists at Russia's Mammoth Museum-Laboratory have carried out the first autopsy of a female bear, which they estimate dates back 1,460 years.
The video that accompanies this news item shows the state of the animal, found in permafrost (a layer of land in which ice joins rocks with other sediments) by some reindeer herders, who took it to the Mammoth Museum-Laboratory.
Maksim Cheprasov, a researcher at the Mammoth Museum-Laboratory, explained that it is "a unique find" and that for the first time they will be able to study the internal organs of the animal, as well as its brain.
Scientists have found it in such good condition that they do not rule out finding living cells.
The professor of the Korean Foundation for Biotechnology SOOAM, Hwan Wu Sok, has been confident in taking samples and believes that it will be a "historic achievement" if any living cells are finally obtained from the remains of the animal.
The first results of the study reveal that the specimen, which measures 1.55 meters and weighs about 78 kilos, is a two or three-year-old female brown bear that died from a spinal cord injury and was buried.
Scientists have named her Eretikan, since she was found east of the Bolshoy Etherican River, located on the Great Liajovski Island
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which is 50 kilometers from Russia.
The scientific group will continue to carry out studies on the animal to determine questions that explain the arrival of the animal on the islands and they trust that the results of the autopsy of the specimen will also help them to recreate an image of the ecosystem of the islands at the time it was discovered. that the bear lived
