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    Spectacular ice age wolf pup and caribou dug up in Canada!

    Very cool stuff!


    Two mummified ice age mammals – a wolf pup and a caribou calf – were discovered by gold miners in the area in 2016 and unveiled on Thursday at a ceremony in Dawson in Yukon territory.

    It is extremely rare for fur, skin and muscle tissues to be preserved in the fossil record, but all three are present on these specimens, which have been radiocarbon-dated to more than 50,000 years old.

    The wolf pup is preserved in its entirety, including exceptional details of the head, tail, paws, skin and hair. The caribou calf is partially preserved, with head, torso and two front limbs intact.
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    Wannabe is offline Nov 5, 1946 - Nov 19, 2018
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    That was a good find, Mike. Thanks

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    That wolf pup is 50,000 years old and looks like yesterday's road kill. Think about that, it boggles my mind!
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    Wow, some things are just amazing in this old globe.

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    I read somewhere that people have eaten mastodon flesh after digging them out of the permafrost in Siberia.
    I do have a pocket knife with scales made of mastodon bones, but I’ll pass on dining on the criter’s remains.
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    Quote Originally Posted by wacojoe View Post
    I’ll pass on dining on the criter’s remains.
    Odd...I remember you saying elsewhere that you enjoy aged steaks......Ben
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    Quote Originally Posted by Truckman View Post
    Odd...I remember you saying elsewhere that you enjoy aged steaks......Ben
    I’ll draw an arbitrary line at aging measured in aeons.
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