Curious layman Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(20)31686-9 Quote In July 2016, a mummified carcass of an ancient wolf (Canis lupus) pup (specimen YG 648.1) was discovered in thawing permafrost in the Klondike goldfields, near Dawson City, Yukon, Canada (Figure 1A). The wolf pup mummy was recovered along a small tributary of Last Chance Creek during hydraulic thawing that exposed the permafrost sediment in which it was preserved. This mummified wolf pup is important to the local Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in people, who named it Zhùr, meaning ‘wolf’ in the Hän language of their community. Here, we report detailed morphometric, isotopic, and genetic analyses of Zhùr that reveal details of her appearance, evolutionary relationships to other wolves and short life-history and ecology Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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