Perfectly preserved lion cub found frozen in Siberia is 28,000 yrs old: Scientists

One of the two lion cubs that were found frozen in Siberia in 2017 and 2018 is 28,000 years old, scientists said. The perfectly preserved cub's teeth, skin, soft tissue and organs are mummified but all intact. "Sparta is probably the best preserved Ice Age animal ever found," a professor of evolutionary genetics at Centre for Palaeogenetics in Stockholm said.