00:00Scientists are dissecting this bear, but this isn't the variety you might find in a national forest, at least not these days.
00:10This bear was recently discovered in the frozen ice of eastern Siberia, and experts believe it's 3460 years old.
00:18They say it's a female brown bear 2-3 years old, and it's an incredibly unique find.
00:22That's because not only are scientists getting a chance to examine a complete animal from back in the day,
00:27but this one comes complete with skin, and fur, and more.
00:30With the researchers from the Lazarev Mammoth Museum Laboratory at the non-eastern federal university in Russia saying about it,
00:36quote,
00:37For the first time, a carcass with soft tissues has fallen into the hands of scientists, giving us the opportunity to study the internal organs and examine the brain.
00:44The bear would have stood just over 5 feet tall, and weighed around 172 pounds.
00:49They're now calling the creature the etheric and brown bear, because of where it was discovered.
00:53But there's something a bit strange about this one.
00:55Despite being three and a half millennia old, preliminary DNA analysis reveals it, quote,
01:00does not differ in mitochondrial DNA from the modern bear from the northeast of Russia.
