Cave lion cub Sparta 2 (IMAGE)

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Cave lion cub Sparta 2

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Image of the frozen cave lion cub named Sparta, which has been radiocarbon dated to ca 32,000 years before present and genetically identified as a female. Sparta was found in 2018 in Belaya Gora, near the Indigirka River in northeastern Siberia, and her genome was sequenced as part of this study.

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Photo by Love Dalén.

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