Russian scientists conduct autopsy on 44,000-year-old wolf carcass
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Ancient wolf in permafrost is world’s first discovery of Pleistocene predator, found by residents in Yakutia region.
Russian scientists are performing an autopsy on a wolf frozen in permafrost for about 44,000 years, a find they said was the first of its kind.
Found by chance by residents in the far northeastern region of Yakutia’s Abyysky district in 2021, the wolf’s carcass is only now being properly examined by scientists, the Reuters news agency reported on Friday.
“This is the world’s first discovery of a late Pleistocene predator,” said Albert Protopopov, head of the department for the study of mammoth fauna at the Yakutia Academy of Sciences.
“Its age is about 44,000 years, and there have never been such finds before,” he said.
Sandwiched between the Arctic Ocean and in Russia’s Arctic far east, Yakutia is a vast region of swamps and forests, about 95 percent of which is covered in permafrost.
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