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- Title
First Find of a Frozen Mummy of the Fossil Don Hare Lepus tanaiticus (Leporidae, Lagomorpha) from the Pleistocene of Yakutia.
- Authors
Boeskorov, G. G.; Chernova, O. F.; Shchelchkova, M. V.
- Abstract
Until recently, only bone remains of Don hares, which went extinct in the Holocene, were known. For the first time, the mummy of an adult hare, identified as a Don hare, has made it possible to expand our understanding of this species and its morphological adaptations to living conditions in the Arctic steppes of the Pleistocene of Yakutia: large body length, short ears and feet, powerful locomotor apparatus of the hind limbs, hard hair brushes on the feet, and excellent heat-shielding properties of the fur, including the specific microstructure of the hairs.
- Subjects
ARCTIC regions; LAGOMORPHA; PLEISTOCENE Epoch; HARES; HAIRBRUSHES; HINDLIMB
- Publication
Doklady Earth Sciences, 2023, Vol 510, Issue 1, p298
- ISSN
1028-334X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1134/S1028334X23600056