Hannah Osborne is the planet Earth and animals editor at Live Science. Prior to Live Science, she worked for several years at Newsweek as the science editor. Before this she was science editor at International Business Times U.K. Hannah holds a master's in journalism from Goldsmith's, University of London.
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 on the ancient predator, which was discovered by a river in the Republic of Sakha — also known as Yakutia — in 2021.
Photos from the necropsy show the wolf's mummified body in exquisite detail. Animals are preserved in permafrost through a type of mummification involving cold and dry conditions. Soft tissues are dehydrated, allowing the body to be preserved in a frozen time capsule. He added the wolf, which tooth analysis revealed was male, would've been an"active and large predator," so they will be able to find out what it was eating, along with the diet of its victims, which"also ended up in his stomach."
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