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Gold Miner Finds 57,000-Year-Old Wolf Pup in Yukon Permafrost
Dec 22, 2020
57,000 years ago from today, a 7-week-old wolf pup was killed when her den in Canada's Yukon territory suddenly collapsed. The wolf's body was frozen and buried under permafrost which meant its body would barely decay, leading to its discovery by a gold miner in 2016.
Frozen in permafrost, a gold miner would discover the mummified remains of the gray wolf pup. Now, in a study published in the journal Current Biology, scientists are shedding light on the lives and times of the poor pup and piecing together how life was like in Canada years ago.
https://interestingengineering.com/g...kon-permafrost
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