Reviving a lion from a corpse intact for 12,000 years

From DNA samples taken from intact frozen baby lions after 12,000 years, international scientists are hoping to revive cave lions that once wandered on Earth in the Ice Age.

In August 2015, the corpse of the lion named Uyan and Dina was found in a frozen and intact state in the Sakha Republic in northwestern Russia, according to the International Business Times.

The pair of lions is the best preserved cat specimen ever built by the permafrost. Researchers are looking for tissue living inside the lion's body. They wanted to take DNA samples to revive the lions that were last present in the Renovation.

Child cave lions still retain their outer coat after 12,000 years under the ice.(Photo: Siberian Times).

This is a joint project between Russian and Korean scientists at the Molecular Biology Organization of the Northeastern Russian University in the city of Yakutsk. They will use a lion for the cloning process while the other is displayed at the museum. The lion autopsy will take place at the end of 2016.

Double cave lions were discovered in a position about 1,046 km northeast of Yakutsk, Yakutia. Yakov Androsov, a local resident, saw lions crossing cracks in the Uyandina River.

"This discovery is very emotional. The pair of baby lions are intact with full body parts such as hair, ears, soft tissue and even whiskers. We took samples to study the cells. Compared to Today's young lion, this pair of lions are very small, can be one or two weeks old, their eyes are not very big, their teeth are very small and not fully grown , " said Dr. Albert Protopopov, head of the research department. Mammoth fauna at Yakutia Academy of Sciences, said.