“If you were just to look at his head – eyes closed, chin resting gently on the surface in front of him, with slightly outstretched paws – you might think the puppy were only sleeping.”
“But the tiny canine, newly delivered from the permafrost in Yakutsk in eastern Siberia, died 18,000 years ago, at the tender age of just two months old.”
“He’s so perfectly preserved that his whiskers, eyelashes, nose and much of its fur are in good condition – as though he’d died only recently. Part of his rib cage and spine is exposed, and cause of death is yet to be determined, but from the position of the body, he was not in any distress at the time.”
View the whole story here: https://www.sciencealert.com/18-000-year-old-puppy-found-almost-perfectly-preserved-in-siberian-permafrost