The prehistoric horned lark is now in the Sakha Academy of Sciences collection in Yakutsk, a city in eastern Siberia. It is considered the coldest city on Earth, with average temperatures dipping ...

“The genetic analysis also suggests that the bird belonged to a population that was a joint ancestor of two subspecies of horned lark living today, one in Siberia, and one in the steppe in Mongolia.

Siberia is one such place ... the bird has been identified as a species of horned lark. By diving into the bird’s genetic information, the scientists studying the remains have linked it to ...