Woolly rhino discovery in the lower Kolyma River |
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| Authors: | Gennady G Boeskorov Peter A Lazarev Andrei V Sher Sergei P Davydov Nadezhda T Bakulina Marina V Shchelchkova Jonas Binladen Eske Willerslev Bernard Buigues Alexey N Tikhonov |
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| Institution: | 1. Diamond and Precious Metals Geology Institute, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS), 39 Prospect Lenina, 677980 Yakutsk, Russia;2. Institute of Applied Ecology of the North, 5 Kulakovskogo St., 677891 Yakutsk, Russia;3. Severtsov Institute of Problems of the Evolution and Ecology, RAS, 33 Leninskiy Prospect, 119071 Moscow, Russia;4. North-East Science Station, Pacific Institute of Geography, Far East Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (FEB RAS), 2 Malinovy Yar St., 678830 Chersky, Russia;5. State Mine-Geological Company “Yakutskgeologia”, 13 Kirova St., 677000 Yakutsk, Russia;6. Ammosov Yakutsk State University, 58 Belinskogo St., 677007 Yakutsk, Russia;7. Center for Ancient Genetics, Institute of Biology, University of Copenhagen, 30 Juliane Maries vej, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark;8. “Mammuthus”, 2 avenue de la Pelouse, 94160 St. Mande, France;9. Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), 1 Universitetskaya naberezhnaya, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia;1. Ice Age Museum, “National Alliance of Shidlovskiy “Ice Age”, 119 bld, Mira pr, Moscow, 129223, Russia;2. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskii pr. 33, Moscow, 119071, Russia;3. Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Locked Bag 2001, Kirrawee DC, NSW 2232, Australia;4. Institute of Biology and Soil Science Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Stoletiya Vladivostoka, 159, Vladivostok, 690022, Russia;1. Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 1350K, Denmark;2. Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-3140, USA;3. Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK;4. The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, The Hebrew University, Rehovot 76100, Israel;5. Department of Biology, The Bioinformatics Centre, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2200N, Denmark;6. Department of Systems Biology, Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby 2800, Denmark;7. National High-Throughput DNA Sequencing Centre, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 1353K, Denmark;8. ICREA at the Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-University Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona 08003, Spain;9. San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research, Escondido, CA 92027, USA;10. Agroscope, Swiss National Stud Farm, Avenches 1580, Switzerland;11. Institute of Genetics, University of Bern, Bern 3001, Switzerland;12. Station Biologique de la Tour du Valat, Arles 13200, France;13. Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem 91120, Israel;14. Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin 10315, Germany;15. Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg 199034, Russia;16. EAZA Equid TAG, Köln 50668, Germany;17. Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Museum of Domesticated Animals “Julius Kühn”, Halle 06108, Germany;18. Institute of Applied Ecology of the North, North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk 677980, Russia;19. Centro Nacional de Analisis Genomico (CNAG-CRG), Barcelona 08023, Spain;20. College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA;21. Université de Toulouse, University Paul Sabatier (UPS), Laboratoire AMIS, CNRS UMR 5288, 37 Allées Jules Guesde, 31000 Toulouse, France;1. Ancient DNA Laboratory, School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia 6150, Australia;2. Trace and Environmental DNA Laboratory, Department of Environment and Agriculture, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia 6845, Australia;3. CMCA, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia 6009, Australia;4. School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, South Australia 5001, Australia;1. Research Centre in Evolutionary Anthropology and Palaeoecology, School of Natural Sciences and Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, James Parsons Building, Byrom Street, Liverpool, L3 3AF, United Kingdom;2. Research Station of Quaternary Palaeontology Weimar, Senckenberg Research Institutes and Natural History Museums, Am Jakobskirchhof 4, 99423, Weimar, Germany |
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| Abstract: | A nearly complete frozen mummy of a woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis Blum., 1799) was discovered in a gold mine on the lower reaches of the Kolyma River, north–eastern Siberia. This is the first find of the whole body of woolly rhino in permafrost. A large part of the mummified body was preserved, including the left part of the body, covered by skin, including skin of the head and ear, fore and hind legs. The skull with 2 horns and the lower jaw were also preserved. Most of the internal organs were lost, except the intestines, stomach, and their contents. A rib fragment from this individual was dated by AMS-radiocarbon method to 39,140 ± 390 years BP (OxA-18755). Spore and pollen analyses of the stomach contents indicate that grasses and sagebrushes formed the main part of the diet of C. antiquitatis in this region of Arctic Siberia. |
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