The investigators discovered a horse skull that dates back to the last ice age in a yukon mine
The skull of a “wonderfully preserved” ice age horse was discovered in the Yukon mine in Canada. The new photographs revealed a male who had died in his teens.
A group of researchers from the Yukon paleontology program in Canada, new photographs of a “Wonderfully preserved” skull of an ice age horse.
Based on the ground around the skull and depth of the sediments where it was found, experts estimate that the horse lived about 30,000 years ago.
As it details, to date, scientists identified more than 50 horsepower of the glacier era (between 2.6 million and 11,700 years ago), but it is not yet known to which the skull belongs.
According to the investigator Cameron Webberquoted by experts, in an email sent to Live Science, the horses that lived in the current Yukon region during the last glacier were relatively small, about 1.2 meters high at shoulder height.
The investigators found the skull in a mine in Klondik – A region in western Yukon.
Only parts of the lower jaw and upper skull were initially visible above the mine’s frozen ground – so the team had to return the next day with more tools and water to melt the skull.
The archaeologists revealed the new images through a Facebook post of the Yukon Beringgia interpretive center, a Whitehorse museum, Canada.
Os Miners helped researchers extract the skull “Wonderfully preserved.” “What emerged was a complete horse skull,” they wrote.
“The presence of canines tells us that this horse was probably a macho And, as they were only partially erupted, we know it was probably a adolescent When it died, ”he can read.
Horses lived in North America between about 50 million and 11,000 years ago, when extinguished locally.
Europeans later reintroduced the horses from the fifteenth century and the animals spread rapidly across the continent.
