44,000-year-old wolf mummy found; Researchers to study the genome

 

The permafrost of Siberia, Russia's frozen northeast, has long since thawed due to climate change. Later, mummies of hundreds of species that lived tens of thousands of years ago were found here. Micro-organisms to baby mammoths have been found in it. The latest discovery in this group is the 44,000-year-old wolf. That too with prey in its stomach. The scientific world is hoping that the new discovery will provide more information about ancient species and the microbes that were active at that time.

In 2021, a mummified wolf was found in a river in Russia's eastern Republic of Sakha, known as Yakutia. But researchers have recently completed the autopsy of this wolf. Researchers claimed that it was an adult wolf that lived during the Pleistocene (Pleistocene -2.6 million years to 11,700 years ago). Researchers from the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk say that this discovery will help to understand in detail the life in this region during the last ice age.