A mummified Pleistocene gray wolf pup.

Animals Biological Evolution Body Remains Female History, Ancient Phylogeny Wolves / physiology

Journal

Current biology : CB
ISSN: 1879-0445
Titre abrégé: Curr Biol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9107782

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
21 12 2020
Historique:
entrez: 22 12 2020
pubmed: 23 12 2020
medline: 31 8 2021
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

In July 2016, a mummified carcass of an ancient wolf (Canis lupus) pup (specimen YG 648.1) was discovered in thawing permafrost in the Klondike goldfields, near Dawson City, Yukon, Canada (Figure 1A). The wolf pup mummy was recovered along a small tributary of Last Chance Creek during hydraulic thawing that exposed the permafrost sediment in which it was preserved. This mummified wolf pup is important to the local Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in people, who named it Zhùr, meaning 'wolf' in the Hän language of their community. Here, we report detailed morphometric, isotopic, and genetic analyses of Zhùr that reveal details of her appearance, evolutionary relationships to other wolves and short life-history and ecology. Zhùr is the most complete wolf mummy known. She lived approximately 57,000 years ago and died in her den during a collapse of the sediments. During her short life, she ate aquatic resources, and is related to ancient Beringian and Russian gray wolves and her clade is basal to all living gray wolves. VIDEO ABSTRACT.

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.11.011 PMID: 33352124
pubmed: 33352124
pii: S0960-9822(20)31686-9
doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.11.011
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Historical Article Letter Video-Audio Media

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

R1467-R1468

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Auteurs

Julie Meachen (J)

Des Moines University, Department of Anatomy, Des Moines, IA, USA. Electronic address: julie.meachen@dmu.edu.

Matthew J Wooller (MJ)

Alaska Stable Isotope Facility, Water and Environmental Research Center, Institute of Northern Engineering, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA; Water and Environmental Research Center, Institute of Northern Engineering, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA; Department of Marine Biology, College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA.

Benjamin D Barst (BD)

Water and Environmental Research Center, Institute of Northern Engineering, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA.

Juliette Funck (J)

Alaska Stable Isotope Facility, Water and Environmental Research Center, Institute of Northern Engineering, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA; Water and Environmental Research Center, Institute of Northern Engineering, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA.

Carley Crann (C)

A.E. Lalonde AMS Laboratory, University of Ottawa, Ottawa , ON K1N 6N5, Canada.

Jess Heath (J)

Alpine Veterinary Medical Center, Whitehorse, YT, Canada.

Molly Cassatt-Johnstone (M)

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.

Beth Shapiro (B)

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.

Elizabeth Hall (E)

Government of Yukon, Department of Tourism and Culture, Yukon Palaeontology Program, PO Box 2703, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 2C6, Canada.

Susan Hewitson (S)

Government of Yukon, Department of Tourism and Culture, Yukon Palaeontology Program, PO Box 2703, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 2C6, Canada.

Grant Zazula (G)

Government of Yukon, Department of Tourism and Culture, Yukon Palaeontology Program, PO Box 2703, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 2C6, Canada; Collections and Research, Canadian Museum of Nature, PO Box 3443, Station D, Ottawa, ON, K1P 6P4, Canada.

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