They don’t have to speculate about what Dogor looked like, however, because icy conditions have left him remarkably frozen in time. Scientists can touch his fur, lift his padded paws and pull back his lips to bare small, yellowed teeth. “Fantastic, right?” says Dave Stanton, a research fellow at the Centre for Palaeogenetics in Stockholm who has been scrutinizing the long-lost canine. Exactly how and when they evolved from wolves is unclear; one recent study estimates between 20,000 to 40,000 years ago. The fact that testing can’t tell whether Dogor is wolf or dog gives further evidence for a link to both species, scientists say.

Source: Washington Post November 30, 2019 00:47 UTC