A 57,000-year-old wolf pup perfectly preserved in permafrost is finally unlocking its secrets after it was discovered nearly four years ago. The grey wolf, known as Zhùr by locals, was discovered in ...

The remains of a very young wolf pup were found in Canada, and the animal is thought to be roughly 57,000 years old. The pup was frozen in a layer of permafrost and was uncovered by a miner who was ...

Few scientific finds arrive from such an unexpected place. Deep in Siberian permafrost, a frozen wolf puppy has been quietly holding a genetic record for more than 14,400 years. Researchers studying ...

In July 2016, a gold miner in the Klondike goldfields of the Canadian Yukon who was thawing frozen ground and mud to locate placer deposits came upon a much furrier, historically valuable discovery.

Finding the remains of a 50,000-year-old animal is always exciting, but scientists know to temper their expectations. Normally all that's left of such an old specimen is bone, or sometimes the rough ...

The woolly rhinoceros, illustrated above, is an extinct species of rhinoceros that was common throughout Europe and northern Asia during the Pleistocene epoch. Scientists recently sequenced the genome ...