An 18,000-year-old puppy frozen in the Siberian permafrost was uncovered with its fur, nose, mouth and even its whiskers intact. It is so well preserved that researchers could determine that it was about two months old when it died (based at least partly on examination of its milk teeth), and could also extract DNA from a rib bone. Two separate analyses of the DNA have been conducted, allowing researchers to determine that the puppy was male, but the genetic material could not resolve a fundamental question: Is the puppy a dog or a wolf?
The puppy has been named Dogor, which has two meanings. One, it is the beginning of the question, “Dog or wolf?” Two, it means “friend” in Yakut, a Turkic language spoken by nearly half a million native speakers in eastern Siberia.
via Whisker Therapy