Albert Protopopov

Jun 27, 2024 | themeateater.com | Maggie Hudlow |Albert Protopopov |Megan Plete Postol |Artemy Goncharov

Receding permafrost has, once again, revealed a perfectly preserved relic of the ancient world. In 2021, Russian scientists pulled a mummified wolf from Siberian permafrost by a river in Yakutia. (That’s right, ice can mummify bodies in the right conditions.)This is the first complete wolf ever discovered from the late Pleistocene. A necropsy was performed at North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk, the same university that investigated this permafrost-preserved bear from the Holocene.

Jun 25, 2024 | todayschronic.com | Shen Ridenbaugh |Albert Protopopov

In a first-of-its-kind discovery, a complete mummified wolf was pulled from the permafrost in Siberia, after being locked away for more than 44,000 years. Scientists have now completed a necropsy (an animal autopsy) on the ancient predator, which was discovered by a river in the Republic of Sakha - also known as Yakutia - in 2021.