Well-preserved Ice Age woolly rhino found in Siberia
A well-preserved woolly rhino with its last meal still intact found in the extreme north of Yakutia. (Dr Valery Plotnikov from the Academy of Sciences)MOSCOW โ A well-preserved Ice Age woolly rhino with many of its internal organs still intact has been recovered from permafrost in Russia's extreme north. Itโs among the best-preserved specimens of the Ice Age animal found to date. Recent years have seen major discoveries of mammoths, woolly rhinos, Ice Age foal, and cave lion cubs as the permafrost increasingly melts across vast areas of Siberia because of global warming. The carcass was found on the bank of the Tirekhtyakh river in the Abyisk district, close to the area where another young woolly rhino was recovered in 2014.
Abandoned baby giraffe befriended by dog in Africa dies
(AP Photo/Jerome Delay)JOHANNESBURG โ A baby giraffe that was befriended by a dog after he was abandoned in the wild has died, a South African animal orphanage said Friday. Orphanage staff had expected this to happen, assuming that the mother giraffe had abandoned the baby for a reason, Arrie van Deventer, the orphanage's founder, told The Associated Press. โSo we finally know that Jazz didn't have a bad giraffe mother that left him," the orphanage's statement said. The baby giraffe had arrived a few weeks ago, just days after birth. The giraffe was buried close to the orphanage, van Deventer said.