57,000 Year-old Wolf Puppy Found Frozen in Yukon Permafrost

National Geographic ^ | DECEMBER 21, 2020 | RILEY BLACK

[Red Badger]

Well, Doggone!...............

[blueunicorn6]

You get to be 57,000 years old and then you end up getting frozen out in the middle of nowhere. What a bummer.

[Flick Lives]

Stay! Stay!

... 57,000 years later.

Good boy!

[Vermont Lt]

I would bet that more people reading this and thinking, “poor little puppy.”

And yet, when they find a frozen human they think, “Stupid Human shouldn’t haven’t gone out that day.”

Funny stuff.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“Ancient DNA is bringing to life the dynamism of the Late Pleistocene..."

I've seen this movie before. I already have 12 dogs, a steer, a mule and two cats to care for - don't be offering me a reanimated wolf puppy...because I would probably take it! ;)

[srmanuel]

Just when you think you’re out, they pull you back in...

Seriously, that’s a pretty cool article..

[FreedomNotSafety]

I doubt the natives were around when that pup was alive. But they claimed it as their own.

[Hot Tabasco]

because the ice caps at the poles were much larger than today.

And obviously much smaller than the Interglacial.............which were much smaller than today

Zhur lived during an interglacial, when the vast Arctic glaciers temporarily receded, and woodlands overtook the chillier grasslands.

[lee martell]

To Zhur, with Love!

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Very "cool"!

[Little Ray]

Makes perfect sense to me.

[dfwgator]

Life, uhhh, finds a way.

[PGR88]

Is it at a shelter and ready for adoption?

[SJackson]

Outdoors/Rural/wildlife/hunting/hiking/backpacking/National Parks/animals list please FR mail me to be on or off . And ping me is you see articles of interest.

[Vaquero]

“Must go faster”

[Flag_This]

” sometimes called the Ice Age, because the ice caps at the poles were much larger than today.”

Yeah, the ice caps were a bit larger, and places like Chicago and NYC were under a mile of ice. There was a lot of ice going around during that “Ice Age” thing.

[Migraine]

I am curious about the method of dating this find to 57K years.

[hanamizu]

“The local Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in people named the 57,000-year-old pup Zhur, meaning “wolf”

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Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in people appear to be as creative as the Russians, who called their first satellite “Sputnik” which means ‘satellite’ in Russian.

[Bob434]

[[57,000 Year-old Wolf Puppy Found Frozen in Yukon Permafrost]]

A good bowl of hot soup will fix that puppy right up