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32,000-year-old mummified woolly rhino half-eaten by predators unearthed in Siberia

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The woolly rhino's right side is well preserved, with patches of skin and fur that have stayed intact over millennia.

But its left side shows the youngster was mauled in the hours preceding or following its death.

Scientists excavated the carcass in August 2020 from the ice-covered banks of the Tirekhtyakh River in Russia .