The mummified remains of a foal that lived around 30,000 to 40,000 years ago have been found within melting permafrost in a crater in Siberia. The body was found with its skin, hair, hooves and soft tissue intact.

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The astonishingly intact body of a young foal that died between 30,000 and 40,000 years ago was recently unearthed from melting permafrost in Siberia. Its mummified remains were so well-preserved by icy conditions that the skin, the hooves, the tail, and even the tiny hairs in the animal’s nostrils and around its hooves are still visible.

Paleontologists found the mummified body of the young horse inside the 328-foot-deep (100 meters) Batagaika crater during an expedition to Yakutia in eastern Siberia. The researchers announced the mummy’s discovery on Aug. 11, The Siberian Times reported.

The foal was likely about two months old when it died and may have drowned after falling into “some kind of natural trap,” Grigory Savvinov, deputy head of the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk, Russia, told The Siberian Times. [See Photos of the Perfectly Preserved Ice-Age Foal]