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Canadian Gold Miner Finds 57,000-Year-Old Wolf Pup Still Covered in Fur – Gizmodo Australia

Her life was short. Scientists estimate she lived for about six or seven weeks in the underground den, before it collapsed around her. This tragedy and the permafrost…

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Her life was short. Scientists estimate she lived for about six or seven weeks in the underground den, before it collapsed around her. This tragedy and the permafrost that preserved her body are the reasons we know of this wolf pups existence approximately 57,000 years later. Zhùr, or wolf in the Hän language, is the subject of a paper published today in Current Biology.
Her preservation is exquisite: from the details of her face and lips, to the tiny claws on each paw and her sweet ginger fur….

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