A 3,500-year-old bear preserved in Siberian permafrost is dissected by researchers

A astir 3,500-year-old brownish bear that was astir perfectly preserved successful Siberian permafrost is now being dissected by Russian researchers.

The female carnivore has undergone a necropsy aft it was discovered by reindeer herders connected Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Island successful nan Arctic successful 2020. 

It was recovered conscionable eastbound of nan Bolshoy Etherican River and, therefore, has been named nan Etherican brownish bear.

The utmost temperatures successful nan area helped to sphere nan bear's soft insubstantial for 3,460 years, arsenic good arsenic nan remains of its last meals. 

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Scientists behaviour an autopsy of a fossil brownish carnivore pinch nan geological property of 3,460 years, recovered successful nan permafrost of bluish Yakutia by reindeer herders successful 2020, successful Yakutsk, Russia February 21, 2023.  (REUTERS/Michil Yakovlev)

The 5.09-foot gangly and almost 172-pound carnivore had ingested birds and plants. 

The squad trim done nan bear's hide – pinch nan insubstantial and fat visible – and scientists examined its encephalon and soul organs. They utilized a vacuum to suck up nan skull bony dust. 

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A female looks astatine a diorama astatine nan Yakutsk State Museum of History and Culture successful Yakutsk, Russia connected July 2, 2019. Melting permafrost is altering Siberia's landscape, including nan region's largest city, Yakutsk, and altering its economy.  ((Photo by Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post via Getty Images))

Maxim Cheprasov, laboratory main astatine nan Lazarev Mammoth Museum Laboratory astatine nan North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk, eastbound Siberia, said that nan carnivore was astir apt aged astir 2 to 3 years and that it had died from an wounded to its spinal column.

A brownish carnivore (Ursus arctos beringianus) walks connected nan Kamchatka peninsula ((Photo by: Valerio Ferraro/REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images))

It remains unclear really nan carnivore came to beryllium connected nan island, which is divided from nan mainland. Melting permafrost has been altering Siberia's landscape.

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"Genetic analysis has shown that nan carnivore does not disagree successful mitochondrial DNA from nan modern carnivore from nan north-east of Russia – Yakutia and Chukotka," Cheprasov told Reuters, noting nan find is "absolutely unique." 

Reuters contributed to this report.