Scientists Find Perfectly Intact 18,000-Year-Old Dog in Permafrost, But Experts Think it May Be a Wolf

But Was It Actually a Dog?

Love Dalén, a professor at the Stockholm-based Center for Palaeogentics, took a sample of the puppy’s DNA from its bones to find out whether or not the animal was actually a dog or that of a wolf. “That makes it even more interesting,” Dalén said.