Oyogos Yar coast

72°41′00″N 143°28′31″E / 72.683470°N 143.475260°E / 72.683470; 143.475260 The Oyogos Yar Coast is a coastal area in Sakha, found in northeast Siberia and part of the Russian Far East.[1] It is located near the Laptev Sea.

The region has been the site of various paleontology studies.[2] In 2010, the local people of Yukagir, a village near the coast, found a well-preserved woolly mammoth carcass. The specimen was nicknamed Yuka.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ Opel, Thomas; Laepple, Thomas; Meyer, Hanno; Dereviagin, Alexander Yu; Wetterich, Sebastian (April 17, 2017). "Northeast Siberian ice wedges confirm Arctic winter warming over the past two millennia". The Holocene. 27 (11): 1789–1796. Bibcode:2017Holoc..27.1789O. doi:10.1177/0959683617702229. S2CID 132430089. Retrieved September 19, 2019.
  2. ^ Kuznetsova, Tatiana V.; Wetterich, Sebastian; Matthes, Heidrun; Tumskoy, Vladimir E.; Schirrmeister, Lutz (June 2022). "Mammoth Fauna Remains From Late Pleistocene Deposits of the Dmitry Laptev Strait South Coast (Northern Yakutia, Russia)". Frontiers in Earth Science. 10. Bibcode:2022FrEaS..10.7629K. doi:10.3389/feart.2022.757629.
  3. ^ Yirka, Bob (April 5, 2012). "Well preserved mammoth from Siberia shows signs of early man stealing from lions". Phys.org. Retrieved February 4, 2021.
  4. ^ Rudaya, Natalia; Protopopov, Albert; Trofimova, Svetlana; Plotnikov, Valery; Zhilich, Snezhana (December 20, 2014). "Landscapes of the 'Yuka' mammoth habitat: A palaeobotanical approach". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 214 (March 2015): 1–8. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2014.12.003. Retrieved September 19, 2022.
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