Buried in the permafrost was the 37,000-year-old mummified body of a baby sabre-toothed tiger. The kitten was found frozen in a block of ice in Yakutia, and was astonishingly perfectly preserved.

A NEARLY 300-year-old mummy has been found "unusually well-preserved ... The mummy's upper body is well preserved, but the lower extremities and head show significant decay.

The approximately five-and-a-half-metre-long specimen was so perfectly preserved ... found on their backs. “As [Borealopelta] started to rot,” Brown reasons, “gases built up within the body ...