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This Frozen Bird Found Was Assumed to Have Died a Day Back But it was Actually 46,000 Years Old


A frozen bird was discovered so well preserved that the fossil discoverer though the bird had only died a day ago.

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Turns out the bird had been dead ever since the middle of the last ice age that was 46,000 years ago.

The extremely well-preserved specimen was found, that is an ancestor of the modern lark was found inside a mine tunnel in permafrost that is located near north-east Siberia’s village of Belaya Gora.

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It looks like the bird hasn’t changed much in the 46,000 years as larks tend to find and settle in open habitat and it is said to be a similar kind of habitat in Siberia back then in the middle of last ice age period. 

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The researchers have named it the Icebird which is the first-ever frozen bird found in Siberia. The researchers also discovered it was a female bird.

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The researchers believe that the bird died a natural death after freezing in the cold and the same had kept its body from decomposing at all over thousands of years.

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Natural History Museum of Sweden’s Palaeontologist Love Dalén was given the bird to study after it was found by the fossil hunters hidden about 7 meters inside the layer of earth in the tunnel. 

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Upon testing on the bird it was found that it lived about 46,000 years ago. 

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It was also found out that the bird was an ancestor of the modern lark. They were first fiddling between the potions of thrush and a lark.

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While today the larks of Mongolia and Russia are different, it is being believed that the climate turn over the last years of Ice Age gave birth to a subspecies of Lark. 

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