Pleistocene Park
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Pleistocene Park is a nature reserve on the Kolyma River south of Chersky in the Sakha Republic, Russia, in northeastern Siberia, where an attempt is being made to re-create the northern subarctic ste
Depiction of some mammals common in northern Eurasia during the late Pleistocene, by Mauricio Antón. From left to right: wild horse, woolly mammoth, reindeer, cave lion and woolly rhinoceros.
Saigas are extinct in Europe and are a near threatened species.
Restored grasslands in Pleistocene Park
Yakutian horses
Muskox
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The muskox is a hoofed mammal of the family Bovidae. Native to the Arctic, it is noted for its thick coat and for the strong odor emitted by males during the seasonal rut, from which its name derives.
Pleistocene Park
…interglacial periods without causing such massive environmental changes. Those large herbivores of the former steppe that survived until today (e.g. musk oxen, bison, horses) thrive in humid environments just as well as in arid ones. The climate (both temperatures and humidity) in today's northern Siberia is…
Muskox male Dovrefjell 4
Euceratherium skeleton (missing its ribs)
Fossil muskox skull from prehistoric Siberia
Muskox at Cape Krusenstern National Monument, Alaska