Posted on 03/31/2016 5:54:01 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The carcass of one of a pair of extinct big cat cubs will be scrutinised this autumn with the realistic possibility that a liquid found in the remains of the animal is milk from the mother.
Separately, it was recently revealed that samples of the prehistoric infant are being examined by South Korean to clone an animal that once occupied Eurasia from modern day Great Britain to the extreme east of Russia. A source close to the case told The Siberian Times that there is 'hope' the frozen remains of a cave lion cub will show evidence of its mother's milk.
Experts do not want to draw premature conclusions but they have 'reason to believe' that the well-preserved innards of two cave lion cubs -- one of which will be subjected to an autopsy, the other preserved for future study -- contains an opaque white fluid that will prove to be from an extinct lactating lioness...
The cubs were dug from their icy grave 'complete with all their body parts: fur, ears, soft tissue and even whiskers', said Dr Albert Protopopov, head of the mammoth fauna studies department of the Yakutian Academy of Sciences...
Cave lions -- Panthera spelaea (Goldfuss) -- lived during Middle and Late Pleistocene times on the Eurasian continent, from the British Isles to Chukotka in the extreme east of Russia, and they also roamed Alaska and northwestern Canada.
Research on the two cubs could help to explain why the species died out around 10,000 years ago, since the animal had few predators, was smaller than herbivores, and was not prone to getting bogged down in swamps, as did woolly mammoths and rhinos. One theory is that a sudden decline in deer and cave bears, their prey, caused the demise of the species.
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Perhaps the same event that caused so many other animals to become seemingly quick frozen.
This is a really cool discovery.
Also, pretty gross, as my joking side wants to say someone would probably make it a niche creamer for the most expensive coffee beverage in the world.
Yup.
LOL.
Actually, when my wife in the nursing phase, I woke up late Saturday morning, made coffee and discovered the kids had used up all the milk.
I mean I can eat oatmeal instead of cereal if I don’t have milk, but the heck I will take my coffee black. (I like it blonde and sweet, like my women)
So I found an alternative solution! ;)
Smoothie?
From a 1958 menu in Alaskan cafe:
Milk - Cold 10 cents
Milk - Served at body temperature in the cutest little containers $2.50
Which means it was warmer and habitable there 10,000 years ago and hasn’t warmed enough to decompose the corpses ever since, but the climate hoaxers charts insist it was cooler then.
They have even found herbivores like mammoths up there in preserved condition which means plants were growing there and haven’t grown there since. It looks like empirical evidence to me that the earth was warmer then.
You also have Viking farms in Greenland preserved and buried in frost for 1000 years that were growing crops in that same place before then. More empirical evidence that it was warmer then as well. Which completely disproves Michael Mann’s idiotic hockey stick chart.
Sounds like a job for Clark W. Griswold.
I thought maybe they'd found Loana:
If I had a time machine, instead of doing what I’d like everyone to think I’d do — save the Great Library of Alexandria, for instance — I’d probably be creating paradoxes by littering history with very attractive progeny.
For that matter, the antics of some future time traveller is probably why experts are under the mistaken impression that most of Asia and Europe is descended from Genghis Khan...
LOL
I’m sure that the mysterious fossil deposits of butter were once cave lions chasing around a tree. [demographically temporocentric reference]
Good point!
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