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Detailed explanation-1: -A well-preserved Ice Age woolly rhino with many of its internal organs still intact has been recovered from permafrost in Russia’s extreme north.

Detailed explanation-2: -By the end of the Riss glaciation about 130, 000 years ago, the woolly rhinoceros lived throughout northern Eurasia, spanning most of Europe, the Russian Plain, Siberia, and the Mongolian Plateau, ranging to extremes of 72° to 33°N. Fossils have been found as far north as the New Siberian Islands.

Detailed explanation-3: -The remarkably preserved carcass of an Ice Age-era woolly rhino has been unearthed by locals in eastern Siberia, researchers have said. The rhino was revealed by the melting permafrost in the Abyisky region of Yakutia in north-eastern Russia.

Detailed explanation-4: -The woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) is an extinct species of rhinoceros that was common throughout Europe and Asia during the Pleistocene epoch and survived until the end of the last glacial period.

Detailed explanation-5: -For you it is, at this point. But for the rotifer, a microscopic yet complex creature, that is life. Bdelloid rotifers caught in the Siberian permafrost 24, 000 years ago are still alive, Lyubov Shmakova, Stas Malavin and colleagues reported in the journal Current Biology on Monday.