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- The remains of a very young wolf pup were found in Canada, and the animal is thought to be roughly 57,000 years old.
- The pup was frozen in a layer of permafrost and was uncovered by a miner who was thawing out a wall of frozen mud in the Klondike goldfields.
- The animal is so incredibly well-preserved that even the contents of its stomach have been examined.
Dogs may be man's best friend, but one poor canine that lived some 57,000 years ago in present-day Canada never got the chance to experience much of her own life, much less meet a human. She died at the incredibly young age of just six or seven weeks, and her body was frozen in such a pristine state that it survived to this day.
The pup is the subject of a new research paper published in Current Biology, and the well-preserved remains are offering researchers an incredible window into what life was like for canines in North American as glaciers were receding. In fact, the small female wolf was preserved in such a state that scientists can even see what it ate prior to its untimely death.
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