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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2019 2:34:57 GMT 10
Ice preserved a tiny puppy in near-perfect condition for 18,000 years. Scientists are fascinated.
Hannah Knowles, The Washington Post Friday, November 29, 2019 Siberian frost has kept a puppy remarkably intact for 18,000 years, researchers say.
Researchers have big outstanding questions about the puppy they have named Dogor - "friend" in a language of the Siberian area where the creature spent 18,000 years in permafrost.
They're still trying to figure out if the tiny animal is a dog or wolf. They wonder whether he could be part of the evolutionary bridge that turned a fierce wild animal into man's best friend.
They don't have to speculate about what Dogor looked like, however, because icy conditions have left him remarkably frozen in time. Scientists can touch his fur, lift his padded paws and pull back his lips to bare small, yellowed teeth.
"Fantastic, right?" says Dave Stanton, a research fellow at the Centre for Palaeogenetics in Stockholm who has been scrutinizing the long-lost canine. "We have quite a lot of ancient samples. . . . But this has got be one of the best-preserved."
The puppy was discovered last year by locals in Yakutia, said Sergey Fedorov, who heads the exposition hall at the Mammoth Museum of Russia's North-Eastern Federal University. Dogor left the wilderness as a lump of soil and ice, but scientists could make out the head and paws of what they believed at first to be a young wolf.
Federov told The Washington Post that he carefully cleaned off dirt and debris to reveal near-intact fur - "extremely rare for animals of that time period."
"It's an amazing feeling, to see, touch and feel the history of earth," he said.
FULL ARTICLE @ SFGATE, San Francisco Bay Area News www.sfgate.com/news/article/Ice-preserved-a-tiny-puppy-in-near-perfect-14871919.php#photo-18687135
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Post by brillbilly on Dec 2, 2019 23:19:32 GMT 10
They're still trying to figure out if the tiny animal is a dog or wolf? You would have thought with todays tech that this should have been answered easy,or could it be that to domesticate a wolf/dog may have requird a third party?
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