For paleontologists, permafrost is a natural place to preserve genes. There are a large number of extinct creatures buried under the ice surface. Due to the low temperature, microbial decomposition will not occur; In addition, temperatures that are too cold will not damage body tissues. So scientists can often excavate complete fossils from here, and sometimes even extract fragments of organisms’ DNA directly from their remains. In addition, biological remains excavated from here are often well preserved and help scientists explore and conduct a series of studies on the organism when it was alive.

 

Scientists have discovered a prehistoric creature in Siberian permafrost. The creature is very well preserved in permafrost, has brown fur, teeth and even relatively complete blood. It looks a lot like a dog. According to carbon dating, the creature lived 18,000 years ago and was male. Scientists named it “Dogor”, which means “friend” in the local language. Curiously, although the creature resembles a dog, scientists have not yet found the creature’s specifics in the canine genetic data.

 

The Swedish professor of genetics said in the “Siberian Times”: We compared the largest and most complete global dog DNA library in Europe, but we did not find Dogor’s breed here , and we couldn’t even tell if it was a dog or not. With current scientific methods, we cannot know whether it belongs to a dog or a wolf. It is believed that with the development of science, people can further unravel the mystery of the species’ race. .