A new scientific study announced that a 35,000-year-old mummified saber-toothed cub was discovered northeast of Yakutia, Russia, in 2020.

The frozen cub was about 3 weeks old with brown fur and broad paws for walking on snow. The first of its kind study showed “significant differences” to a baby lion.

The well-preserved body of a 35,000-year-old, saber-toothed kitten discovered in 2020 beneath the frozen tundra in Siberia, has led to a recently published scientific report of its genetic background,

In 2020, researchers in Russia uncovered a mummified carnivore cub frozen in the Siberian permafrost for nearly 37,000 years. The discovery, made near the Badyarikha River in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia),

Found encased in ice in 2020 along the Badyarikha River in the Republic of Sakha, a northeastern region of Russia that borders the East Siberian Sea of the Arctic Ocean, a well-preserved specimen offers a rare opportunity to examine an extinct predator that roamed Eurasia during the Late Pleistocene.

FREE! A three-week-old saber-toothed tiger kitten died in the permafrost of Siberia 35,000 years ago, and its preserved remains are the subject of a paper published in the journal Scientific Reports.

The kitten, which was found in Russia's northeastern Sakha Republic, still had fur and whiskers when it was discovered.