We found this intact moth frozen in place in still-green grass in a permafrost tunnel in Siberia. We just got a radiocarbon date back on the grass it was found in. Any guesses as to how old it is?

Here& #39;s a hint (the answer is in the thread below in a few places, so don& #39;t click if you want to guess): the upper limit for radiocarbon dating is 50,000 years, and we got a viable date, so it& #39;s younger than that.

By request, here& #39;s the grass the moth came out of. It& #39;s a washed-out iPhone photo, so it doesn& #39;t look as green as it did in person, but you can definitely pick out greenish blades towards the center-right.

Here& #39;s another hint, and something I& #39;m enjoying in my imagination right now: this moth could have landed on a Neanderthal.

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