A team of scientists from the Paleontological Institute at the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Sakha Academy of Sciences in northeastern Russia has also been studying Sasha for years. Last December, after months of work, a taxidermist from the Yakutian Academy of Sciences took the small, slumped remains of Sasha and brought them back to life. And their lifestyles-what they ate and how long they lived-is hazy. Their place on the evolutionary timeline is less clear. Unlike woolly mammoths, which also lived during the Ice Age, woolly rhino remains are rare to find. That any of Sasha, the Ice Age woolly rhino, is intact at all has been a surprising find for the researchers who study this bygone period. ![]() ![]() ![]() Russian scientists aren't quite sure if their 10,000-year-old Sasha was male or female, but the name, they say, universally applies. It's named Sasha after the hunter who found it.
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