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While the water was blasting at a frozen mud wall in Yukon, Canada, a gold miner made a unique discovery-a perfectly preserved wolf pup believed to have been locked in permafrost for 57,000 years.
This outstanding condition of the pup, which the local Tr ondëk Hwëch called Zhùr in people, gave scientists a wealth of understandings about the mummy s age, lifestyle, and association with modern wolves.
The said study findings appeared in the Current Biology journal on December 21. According to Julie Meachen, the study s first author and an anatomy associate professor at Des Moines University, the discovery is the most complete wolf mummy that s ever been found.
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