Ice age animals found in a northern Norway cave: 'Extremely rare' discovery reveals a frozen past

Ice age animals found in a northern Norway cave: 'Extremely rare' discovery reveals a frozen past

A remarkable discovery in northern Norway has uncovered the remains of 46 species from the last Ice Age — from reindeer and Arctic foxes to whales and seabirds — preserved for 75,000 years inside a mountain cave. A cave near Kjøpsvik in the municipality of Narvik, northern Norway, has yielded one of the most extraordinary Ice Age fossil finds in Europe. Deep inside the Arne Qvam Cave, scientists uncovered thousands of fragmented bones from anima…