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Found Frozen and Almost Perfectly Preserved in Permafrost, this 18,000-Year-Old Puppy Could Be a Huge Deal
The DNA of an exquisitely preserved puppy found in Siberia doesnt appear to fit the profile of a dog or a wolf, which means the specimen might be something in between.
The frozen puppy, found near Yakutsk in eastern Siberia, was just two months old when it died, reports CNN. Scientists from the Centre for Palaeogeneticsa joint project between Stockholm University and the Swedish Museum of Natural Historyused radiocarbon dating on its rib bone to place its brief time on Earth to 18,000 years ago, during the tail end of the last Ice Age.
The level of preservation is unreal, with the puppy still exhibiting intact teeth, nose, and fur. Scientists were able to extract DNA from the specimen, allowing them to confirm the pups sex as male. It has since been named Dogor, which means friend in Yakutian.
https://gizmodo.com/found-frozen-and-almost-perfectly-preserved-in-permafro-1840093915
The DNA of an exquisitely preserved puppy found in Siberia doesnt appear to fit the profile of a dog or a wolf, which means the specimen might be something in between.
The frozen puppy, found near Yakutsk in eastern Siberia, was just two months old when it died, reports CNN. Scientists from the Centre for Palaeogeneticsa joint project between Stockholm University and the Swedish Museum of Natural Historyused radiocarbon dating on its rib bone to place its brief time on Earth to 18,000 years ago, during the tail end of the last Ice Age.
The level of preservation is unreal, with the puppy still exhibiting intact teeth, nose, and fur. Scientists were able to extract DNA from the specimen, allowing them to confirm the pups sex as male. It has since been named Dogor, which means friend in Yakutian.
https://gizmodo.com/found-frozen-and-almost-perfectly-preserved-in-permafro-1840093915
Look at that li'l nose!
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He's so cute! (Original Post)
BuffaloJackalope
Nov 2019
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(1,639 posts)1. If the little guy represents. . .
an interim stage between wolf and fully domesticated dog, then maybe the word, "dogor" is where the word dog came from.
What am I saying? That's crazy. The word, dog, is different in all kinds of languages. It would be interesting to know if there are any connections between the words for "wolf" and "dog" in the world's languages.
With the emergence of domesticated foxes in Russia after a half century or so of breeding, I find myself wondering what that breed should be called. I was thinking "fog". Then I saw a show set in the UK and heard them referring to cats as "moggies" and it struck my that "foggie" would be a cute name for the new pet foxes as well.
LeftInTX
(24,560 posts)2. I can't believe how well preserved he is!
Bayard
(21,806 posts)3. 18,000 years old.....
That's amazing.
No siblings? No mama?
Fla Dem
(23,352 posts)4. Gosh what a sentimentalist I am. Pup died 18,000 years ago and
I'm feeling sad he died at only 2 month old.