YAKUTSK, Russia—Scientists have said that an astonishingly well-preserved cave lion cub found in Siberia’s permafrost lived 28,000 years ago and may even still have traces of its mother’s milk in it. The female cub, named Sparta, was found at the Semyuelyakh River in Russia’s Yakutia region in 2018 and a second lion cub called Boris was found the year before, according to a study published in the Quaternary journal. The cubs were found 15 meters (49 feet) apart, but were born thousands of years apart. Boris, a male cub, lived around 43,448 years ago, the study said. The two cubs aged 1–2 months were found by mammoth tusk collectors. Two other lion cubs named Uyan and Dina have also been found in the region in recent years. Cave lions have been extinct for thousands of years. Valery Plotnikov, one of the study’s authors, told Reuters in the regional capital Yakutsk …