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A well-preserved wolf pup has been recovered from permafrost in the YukonTerritory of northern Canada, revealing new details about how ancient wolvesspread across North America and Eurasia.December 21, 2020In the summer of 2016, a gold miner in Canada’s Yukon Territory foundan unexpected treasure. While blasting a wall of permafrost with a watercannon to release whatever riches might be found inside, Neil Lovelesssaw something melting out of the ice. It wasn’t a precious mineral, butthe oldest and most complete wolf mummy ever discovered.Loveless quickly placed the frozen pup in a freezer until paleontologistscould have a look. They found that the well-preserved animal was a juvenilefemale, part of a vanished ecosystem dating to a time when northwesternCanada was home to American mastodons and other Pleistocene megafauna.The local Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in people named the 57,000-year-old pup Zhur,meaning “wolf” in the language of their community.Exceptional mammals have been recovered from the Siberian tundra thatalso date back to the Pleistocene epoch, a period from about 2.6 millionto 11,700 years ago also sometimes called the Ice Age, because the icecaps at the poles were much larger than today. However, finding such anintact wolf in the Yukon is unprecedented.“In Siberia, preservation like this is fairly common because of the way the permafrost preserves things there, which is way less common in the Yukon, Alaska, and other parts of North America,” says Des Moines University paleontologist Julie Meachen, who is the lead author of a study describing Zhur published today in the journal Current Biology. Much of Zhur has remained intact after tens of thousands of years, from the fur ofYou are going to nationalgeographic.com/tv and different terms of useand privacy policy will apply.Copyright © 1996-2015 National Geographic Society.Copyright © 2015-2022 National Geographic Partners, LLC. All rights reservedforfull access to read stories from National Geographic.

A well-preserved wolf pup has been recovered from permafrost in the YukonTerritory of northern Canada, revealing new details about how ancient wolvesspread across North America and Eurasia.December 21, 2020In the summer of 2016, a gold miner in Canada’s Yukon Territory foundan unexpected treasure. While blasting a wall of permafrost with a watercannon to release whatever riches might be found inside, Neil Lovelesssaw something melting out of the ice. It wasn’t a precious mineral, butthe oldest and most complete wolf mummy ever discovered.Loveless quickly placed the frozen pup in a freezer...

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