Canid

Ancient ‘Tumat’ puppy’s brain is ‘well-preserved’

Scientists reveal that they have found the first-ever well preserved brain of a Pleistocene canid and after 12,400 years in the frozen soil of the Sakha Republic, a Siberian subject of the Russian Federation, the puppy has been thawed and bares its teeth for the first time since the Pleistocene.

March 19, 2016
March 19, 2016

Ancient ‘Tumat’ puppy’s brain is ‘well-preserved’

Scientists reveal that they have found the first-ever well preserved brain of a Pleistocene canid and after 12,400 years in the frozen soil of the Sakha Republic, a Siberian subject of the Russian Federation, the puppy has been thawed and bares its teeth for the first time since the Pleistocene.