Amazingly preserved puppy with whiskers, eyelashes, hair and velvety nose intact puzzle scientists


25 November 2019

DNA tests on the 18,000-year-old Siberian canine cannot define if it's a wolf or a dog.

The male puppy with its arrow-head milky teeth was less than two months old when it died.

It was found in summer 2018 inside a lump of a frozen ground near Indigirka River, north-east of Yakutsk, its full body, muzzle, and even whiskers and eyelashes preserved by permafrost.

The reason for the puppy’s death has not been determined yet, although its position did not suggest distress, unlike of the earlier discovered Tumat puppies.

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