57,000-year-old body of wolf puppy found in near-intact condition

In a jaw-dropping discovery, scientists have found an intact body of a female wolf puppy which died 57,000 years ago in melting permafrost.

Publishing the findings in the journal Current Biology, the lead researchers estimate that the seven-week old wolf was in her den in the Canadian Yukon when it collapsed, killing the animal. 

Thanks to the cold, the carcass barely decayed over the subsequent millennia making it the most complete wolf mummy ever found. A miner discovered the pup in 2016 and her age has been determined based on the development of the animal's bones.