Perfectly Preserved 18,000-Year-Old Frozen Puppy Found In Siberia; Oldest Dog Ever Found


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Last Updated on 2019-12-30 , 9:01 am

How old is the oldest dog you know? 

Well, we bet you that the one we know is older. Meet Dogor, an 18,000-year-old frozen puppy that was recently found in Siberia. 


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Image: Sergey Fedorov/Siberian Times

SkyNews reported that Dogorโ€™s perfectly preserved body was found somewhere close to Yakutsk in eastern Siberia last year. 

Dogor, which adorably means friend in Yakutian, was so well preserved that even its nose, fur, and teeth were in tip-top condition. 

Image: Sergey Fedorov/Siberian Times

Oldest Dog Ever Found

Mr Love Dalen, a researcher, said that it was so well preserved that they didnโ€™t have to do much to clean it up when it was found. They even thought it was a recently dead animal. 

By measuring Dogorโ€™s age through a forensic method known as carbon dating, they were shocked to discover that it was roughly 18,000 years old and possibly one of the oldest dogs to ever be found. 

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Dog Or Wolf

Dogorโ€™s lineage is still a mystery although it should have been relatively easy to tell the difference between a wolf and a dog. 

A researcher at the Centre for Palaeogenetics called David Stanton said that despite the large amount of data they got, they still couldnโ€™t pinpoint Dogorโ€™s lineage.

This could mean that Dogor was from a population that was ancestral to both dogs and wolves.

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It is currently suspected that Dogor came from a time when dogs were becoming domesticated, which studies show should have happened about

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