Scientists hope to find in them the remains of animals of the Pleistocene period.
SIMFEROPOL, June 11. /TASS/. the Researchers cave “Tavrida” in the Crimea in the course of future research opened up new tiers and vertical wells, which can potentially be new artifacts, reported in Thursday on the website of the Russian geographical society (RGS).
the Cave was discovered in June of 2018, when construction of the Federal highway on the Crimean Peninsula. In the “Tauris” was found about 300 kg of remains of ancient animals.
“We were able to find about 400-500 m of new moves and found a significant amount of ascending wells 12-15 m in height. If earlier we assumed that we have only one level of the cave, but now it turns out that there are more upper floors of caves, in which, it seems, you can go” — are words in the message scientific Secretary of the RGS in the Republic of Crimea Gennady Samokhin.
it is Noted that scientists are waiting for new discoveries of animals of the Pleistocene period. Cave 1.5 million years ago served as the lair of a giant carnivorous hyenas. Among the remnants of its production, it might be the bones of ancient people. Character clay-sand deposits suggests that the cave for a long time that was filled with water, then freed from it. Perhaps there was even a time when she walked through the stream, the flowing water, bringing clay and sand. Along with these sediments could be formed and new location of palaeontological material — the “graveyard” of ancient animals.
According to the Russian geographical society, the cave began forming about 5 million years ago, and surpasses in size all known caves of the inner ridge of the foothills of the Crimea, its length is about 1.3 thousand m. the Age of the found remains of animals is around 1.5−1.8 million years. Among them are the remains of six seven elephants, three saber-toothed cats, wolves of two different species, two species of foxes, three-four bears of different species. Were discovered the femur of a giant ostrich, weighing more than 450 kg.
Earlier in the cave was planned to create the scientific hospital of Kazan Federal University in the area of 16 hectares for the work of paleontologists, microbiologists and cavers. There will also be classrooms for students and recreation center for tourists.
At the entrance to the cave is scheduled to break landscape Park and install 20 pieces of ancient animals in the natural growth, the remains of which were found in the cave. This three-meter camel and ostrich height of 3.5 m, the family of Buffalo, giant hyena and a family of homotherium extinct sabre-toothed cats, the youngest of whom, cat Taurica, has become a symbol of the cave. The figures are manufactured in China and St. Petersburg. First available��Yat in the Crimea in the summer of 2020.
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