Dogor, the permafrost puppy
18,000 years in the ice, fur and whiskers intact
In 2018 a two-month-old puppy that died some 18,000 years ago was found in the Yakutian permafrost, fur and whiskers intact. DNA could not tell whether it was a dog or a wolf, so it was named Dogor, Yakut for 'friend'; in 2022 geneticists ruled it a wolf.
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A puppy 18,000 years old turned up in the Yakutian permafrost with its fur and whiskers. Scientists could not tell if it was a dog or a wolf and named it Dogor, Yakut for 'friend'. In 2022 genetics said: wolf. Share →