The well-preserved remains of a woolly rhinoceros are pictured during a presentation at the Academy of Sciences, in Yakutsk, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russia. The rhino was found at a river in August 2020 complete with all its limbs, some of its organs and even its wool. It may have lived in the late Pleistocene era, which ended 11,700 years ago.26.01.2021#6446163
A scientist measures a part of the well-preserved remains of a woolly rhinoceros during a presentation at the Academy of Sciences, in Yakutsk, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russia. The rhino was found at a river in August 2020 complete with all its limbs, some of its organs and even its wool. It may have lived in the late Pleistocene era, which ended 11,700 years ago.26.01.2021#6446162
Scientists pose for a photo near the well-preserved remains of a woolly rhinoceros during a presentation at the Academy of Sciences, in Yakutsk, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russia. The rhino was found at a river in August 2020 complete with all its limbs, some of its organs and even its wool. It may have lived in the late Pleistocene era, which ended 11,700 years ago.26.01.2021#6446153
Journalists take pictured of the well-preserved remains of a woolly rhinoceros during a presentation at the Academy of Sciences, in Yakutsk, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russia. The rhino was found at a river in August 2020 complete with all its limbs, some of its organs and even its wool. It may have lived in the late Pleistocene era, which ended 11,700 years ago.26.01.2021#6446158
The well-preserved remains of a woolly rhinoceros are pictured during a presentation at the Academy of Sciences, in Yakutsk, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russia. The rhino was found at a river in August 2020 complete with all its limbs, some of its organs and even its wool. It may have lived in the late Pleistocene era, which ended 11,700 years ago.26.01.2021#6446157
Attendees take pictures of the well-preserved remains of a woolly rhinoceros during a presentation at the Academy of Sciences, in Yakutsk, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russia. The rhino was found at a river in August 2020 complete with all its limbs, some of its organs and even its wool. It may have lived in the late Pleistocene era, which ended 11,700 years ago.26.01.2021#6446155
Mummy of the frozen baby mammoth Lyuba, discovered in 2007 in Yamal by a local reindeer herder, in the exhibition "Mammoths on the Move" at the Museum of the World Ocean in Kaliningrad.10.12.2014#2541536
Mammoth bones are among the items on display in the exhibition at the Museum of the World Ocean in Kaliningrad.10.12.2014#2541543
Staff member of the Museum of the World Ocean in Kaliningrad leads a tour through a hall in the exhibition "Mammoths on the Move".10.12.2014#2541550
Mummy of the frozen baby mammoth Lyuba, discovered in 2007 in Yamal by a local reindeer herder, in the exhibition at the Museum of the World Ocean in Kaliningrad.10.12.2014#2541552
Mummy of the frozen baby mammoth Lyuba, discovered in 2007 in Yamal by a local reindeer herder, in the exhibition "Mammoths on the Move" at the Museum of the World Ocean in Kaliningrad.10.12.2014#2541541
Mummy of the frozen baby mammoth Lyuba, discovered in 2007 in Yamal by a local reindeer herder, in the exhibition at the Museum of the World Ocean in Kaliningrad.10.12.2014#2541546
Children at the display case containing the frozen baby mammoth Lyuba, discovered in 2007 in Yamal by a local reindeer herder, in an exhibition at the Museum of the World Ocean in Kaliningrad.10.12.2014#2541549
Mummy of the frozen baby mammoth Lyuba, discovered in 2007 in Yamal by a local reindeer herder, in the exhibition "Mammoths on the Move" at the Museum of the World Ocean in Kaliningrad.10.12.2014#2541527
Leading paleontologists from Russia, France, Japan, the U.S. and the Netherlands, on a visit to Yakutsk to attend a seminar by the Yakutian Academy of Sciences, study the body of a prehistoric horse.29.02.2012#1054119
The skull of Yuka, a baby mammoth. Leading paleontologists from Russia, France, Japan, the U.S. and the Netherlands, on a visit to Yakutsk to attend a seminar by the Yakutian Academy of Sciences, study the body of Yuka.29.02.2012#1054118
The body of Yuka, a baby mammoth. Leading paleontologists from Russia, France, Japan, the U.S. and the Netherlands, on a visit to Yakutsk to attend a seminar by the Yakutian Academy of Sciences, study the body of Yuka.29.02.2012#1054117
Leading paleontologists from Russia, France, Japan, the U.S. and the Netherlands, on a visit to Yakutsk to attend a seminar by the Yakutian Academy of Sciences, study the body of the extinct steppe bison.29.02.2012#1054116
Leading paleontologists from Russia, France, Japan, the U.S. and the Netherlands, on a visit to Yakutsk to attend a seminar by the Yakutian Academy of Sciences, study the body of the extinct steppe bison.29.02.2012#1054115
Leading paleontologists from Russia, France, Japan, the U.S. and the Netherlands, on a visit to Yakutsk to attend a seminar by the Yakutian Academy of Sciences, study the body of Yuka, a baby mammoth.29.02.2012#1054114
Leading paleontologists from Russia, France, Japan, the U.S. and the Netherlands, on a visit to Yakutsk to attend a seminar by the Yakutian Academy of Sciences, study the body of Yuka, a baby mammoth.29.02.2012#1054113
Leading paleontologists from Russia, France, Japan, the U.S. and the Netherlands, on a visit to Yakutsk to attend a seminar by the Yakutian Academy of Sciences, study the body of Yuka, a baby mammoth.29.02.2012#1054112
Khazar mammoth (Oryabashsky) - on exhibit at the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography Institute of Ethnological Studies, Ufa Science Centre. The age of the fossils is about 200,000 years. Found in 1962 by local residents in coastal sediments eroded along the Orya river (a tributary of the Buye) in the Krasnokamensk district of Bashkortostan. The skeleton was restored and put back together in 1970.11.02.2011#859743
News-conference "Mammoths-Second Life". Left to right: project coordinator Yury Burlakov, academic secretary of the Mammoth Committee at the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexei Tikhonov and polar researcher Bernard Byuig (France). Newspaper "Arguments and Facts".27.10.1999#848278
Skeleton of mammoth in Paleontological Museum named after U.A.Orlov of Russian Academy of Science.01.01.1991#759958
Bust of a Neanderthal boy from Teshik-Tosh cave (100,000-50,000 years BC). Reconstruction from the skull of M. Gerasimov.01.01.1991#527613
Bust of a Neanderthal boy from Teshik-Tosh cave (100,000-50,000 years BC). Reconstruction from the skull of M. Gerasimov.01.01.1991#527612
A baby mammoth found in 1988 on the east coast of the Yamal Peninsula. Professor of the Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now Russian Academy of Sciences), chairman of the mammoth research committee Nikolai Vereshchagin (second from right) tells Leningrad television correspondents about a female woolly mammoth preserved in the permafrost.10.12.1988#6594234
The Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now Russian Academy of Sciences). A map showing the place where the mammoth was found. East coast of the Yamal Peninsula.10.12.1988#6594232
A baby mammoth found in 1988 on the east coast of the Yamal Peninsula. Scientists of the Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now Russian Academy of Sciences) examine the female woolly mammoth preserved in the permafrost.10.12.1988#6594231
A baby mammoth found in 1988 on the east coast of the Yamal Peninsula. Scientists of the Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now Russian Academy of Sciences) examine the female woolly mammoth preserved in the permafrost.10.12.1988#6594230
A baby mammoth found in 1988 on the east coast of the Yamal Peninsula. Professor of the Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now Russian Academy of Sciences), chairman of the mammoth research committee Nikolai Vereshchagin, center, examines the female woolly mammoth preserved in the permafrost.10.12.1988#6594229
A baby mammoth found in 1988 on the east coast of the Yamal Peninsula. Scientists of the Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now Russian Academy of Sciences) examine the female woolly mammoth preserved in the permafrost.10.12.1988#6594226
A baby mammoth found in 1988 on the east coast of the Yamal Peninsula. Scientists of the Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now Russian Academy of Sciences) examine the female woolly mammoth preserved in the permafrost.10.12.1988#6594225
The Orlov Paleontogy Museum in Moscow. A piece of basalt with a fragment of a feather.01.05.1988#8354568
The Orlov Paleontology Museum of Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Photo: A hall with reptile skeletons from the Permian period.02.02.1988#8364685
The Orlov Paleontology Museum of Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Photo: A mammoth skeleton in one of the museum's halls. In 1842, Russian industrialist A. I. Trofimov discovered this skeleton in the northeastern section of Gydan Peninsula in Siberia.02.02.1988#8364637
The Orlov Paleontology Museum of Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Photo: The skeleton of a Pareiasaur skull on display in one of the museum's halls. These para-reptiles roamed what is now South Africa and Zambia during the Permian period.02.02.1988#8364583
The Orlov Paleontology Museum of Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Photo: The skull and skeleton of an herbivorous dinocephal, one of the primitive terapsids that roamed the Earth in the late Permian period.02.02.1988#8364571
The Orlov Paleontology Museum of Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow. The hall of skeletons of reptiles of the Permian period.02.02.1988#8365773
The Orlov Paleontology Museum of Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Photo: A plaster cast of a Diplodocus skeleton in one of the museum's halls. The Diplodocus roamed what is now western North America during the Late Jurassic period.02.02.1988#8364566
The Orlov Paleontology Museum of Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Severodvinsk gallery, consisting of a series of skeletons of reptiles of the Permian period, discovered by Mr. Amalitsky in 1896.02.02.1988#8365772
The Orlov Paleontology Museum of Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow. The skull of a labyrinthodont that lived on Earth in the Paleozoic and Mesozoic era (about 390-150 million years ago) is an exhibit of the museum.02.02.1988#8365768
The Orlov Paleontology Museum of Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Photo: The skeleton of Saurolophus, a duckbill dinosaur, in one of the museum's halls.02.02.1988#8365765
A skeleton of one of the biggest dinosaurs that lived on Earth, Paleontology Museum of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.09.11.1984#21131
The skeleton of a three-meter dinosaur on display at the museum of the Soviet Academy of Sciences' Paleontology Institute.07.09.1984#322403
Mammoth's leg (paleonthologic exhibit) found in the Berelyekh graveyard site in the lower reaches of the Indigirka River.01.10.1981#64761
Carcass of a wooly rhinoceros, the only fully preserved carcass of the mammoth's contemporary, was found in the suburbs of Yakutsk in 1971.01.10.1981#64760
Members of a paleontological expedition of the Soviet Academy of Sciences V. Khloponin, left, and A. Berdov do excavations of the outcrop on a bank of the Yuribei River on the Gyda Peninsula, a place where a female mammoth remains were discovered in September 1979 after having lain in the tundra for about 9,600 years.22.11.1979#6338407
A paleontology expedition of the USSR Academy of Sciences, the members of which carry out excavations in the steep of the Yuribei River on Gyda Peninsula where the remains of a 9,600-year-old female mammoth had been found.22.11.1979#6338401
A paleontology expedition of the USSR Academy of Sciences, the members of which carry out excavations in the steep of the Yuribei River on Gyda Peninsula where the remains of a 9,600-year-old female mammoth had been found.22.11.1979#6338400
A paleontology expedition of the USSR Academy of Sciences, the members of which carry out excavations in the steep of the Yuribei River on Gyda Peninsula where the remains of a 9,600-year-old female mammoth had been found. Parts of the find are carried to the base camp.22.11.1979#6338399
N.Vereshchagin, right, and A.Berdov, members of the paleontology expedition of the USSR Academy of Sciences, carry out excavations in the steep of the Yuribei River on Gyda Peninsula where the remains of a 9,600-year-old female mammoth had been found.18.11.1979#6335515
Zoological Museum at the Leningrad Academy of Sciences of the USSR (now Russian Academy of Sciences). Stuffed mammoth.01.01.1979#520610
