What she can discuss is how important the find is for scientists' understanding of this time period. Sasha is currently being studied by a team of international scientists led by the Russian Academy of Sciences. Her work has focused on large extinct mammals of the Ice Age, and she's currently conducting research on Sasha, though she says she can't yet reveal too much. Olga Potapova is a scientist at The Mammoth Site of Hot Springs South Dakota, a preservation and research organization. Photograph by Sakha Academy of Sciences, The Siberian Times Sasha is almost five feet long, much larger than modern rhinos at seven months old. Modern rhinos in Africa typically don't reach that size until 18 months of age. It measures almost five feet long and stands about two and a half feet tall. That it was so young was a surprise to scientists, reports the Siberian Times. An analysis of Sasha's teeth revealed the animal was about seven months old when it died. Scientists were surprised to see the young rhino was originally a light strawberry blond color. The remains, gray when they were first found, were cleaned. A team of scientists from the Paleontological Institute at the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Sakha Academy of Sciences in northeastern Russia has also been studying Sasha for years. Last December, after months of work, a taxidermist from the Yakutian Academy of Sciences took the small, slumped remains of Sasha and brought them back to life. And their lifestyles-what they ate and how long they lived-is hazy. Their place on the evolutionary timeline is less clear.

Unlike woolly mammoths, which also lived during the Ice Age, woolly rhino remains are rare to find. That any of Sasha, the Ice Age woolly rhino, is intact at all has been a surprising find for the researchers who study this bygone period. Russian scientists aren't quite sure if their 10,000-year-old Sasha was male or female, but the name, they say, universally applies. It's named Sasha after the hunter who found it.

Woolly rhinoceros