How did they get there?My theory is that early hominids dragged them there for a laugh.
>>4899051failed domestication attempt>ivan i bring new wolf>where>in lake>dry off wolf! bitch! it is middle of winter grigor!>no, is lake wolf. will help fish. see? come here doggy>ORF ORF
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>>4899051Actual aliens abducting a bunch of seals and dropping them in lake baikal after because to them "water is water".
>>4899051secret tunnels under the lake, it's proof that hollow earth is real
>>4899051The Caspian Sea seals are a bigger mystery. Baikal seals could have retreated up river as the Arctic Ocean ice became prohibitively thick during the ice age, the bodies of water are connected.But the Caspian Sea seals are descended from Arctic Ocean populations, despite no clear route for their population movement existing.
>>4899060LMAO
>>4899620Baikal is a freshwater lake, it can't connect to the ocean.
>>4899060kek'd
>>4899060It worked, it just took several thousands of years.
>>4900357What is a river?
>>4899051Melt or floodwater from the ice age or a previous ice age connected the north atlantic and lake Baikal through a system of rivers and lakes that are now long gone. That's literally the only explanation. Some sort of massive flood caused the mammoth graveyards, where the animals washed away by floodwater eventually washed up into massive mounds of mud, rocks, vegitation and animal remains. Now, to prevent dumb follow up replies:>uh uh that's conspiracy talk, there was no cataclysmic eventI don't fucking care about your redditor "science" fellating. That's what makes sense, I don't give a shit.>uh uh hunter gatherers did itFuck off retard.
>>4902797This is the most probable explanation
>>4902955Couldn't mammoths just have graveyards where they go to die, like elephants?
>>4899060Fpbp
>>4900357it runs like a riverruns to the seait runs like a riverto the sea...
>>4899051ARF ARF ARF ARF ARF ARF ARF
>>4904570The problem with that explanation is that those graveyards have mammoths of every age, young and old. There is also remains of multiple other animals found there.
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i wanna pet the lake dog
Baikal copepods are the most metal ones, look at this little guy.
>>4908587amphipod
>>4908587hell yeah
Pop quiz: Is this a freshwater fish or an abyssal fish?
>>4908856Baikal is deep enough for it to be both
I wish earth had more ecosystems that have been extremely isolated for very, very long times. Pangea was a mistake.
>>4908860There's always caves
>>4899051how have they not inbred themselves to extinction
>>4909514Lake Baikal is pretty large and as such there's around 100,000 of them, so they're population more than big enough to avoid inbreeding.
