Yukagir

[yoo-kuh-geer]

noun

plural

Yukagirs ,

plural

Yukagir .

1. Yukaghir.

Example Sentences

Potapova said that at that age, the Yukagir Bison would have been roughly the same size and statute of a 6-year-old American bison in terms of weight, height at the shoulders and width between the tips of horns.

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She added that predators typically would have eaten parts like the lips, ears, and tail, but that wasn’t the case with the Yukagir Bison.

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“The exceptionally good preservation of the Yukagir bison mummy allows direct anatomical comparisons with modern species of bison and cattle, as well as with extinct species of bison that were gone at the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary,” said the study’s co-author Evgeny Maschenko of the Paleontological Institute in Moscow in a press release.

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Because of the extremely cold conditions in the region, the “Yukagir bison mummy” is impeccably preserved–it still has fur, a complete brain, heart, blood vessels and a digestive system.

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The trapper here told me that on one occasion he observed, after one of these storms, an unusual mound of snow near his dwelling, and extricated from it the frozen remains of a Yukagir driver and five dogs.

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