'Kind of incredible': Researchers reveal details of mummified ice age wolf pup found in Yukon

Scientists who have been studying a rare, perfectly preserved ancient wolf pup found in Yukon are sharing some of their findings for the first time.

The 57,000-year-old animal, discovered in the gold fields of Yukon in 2016, is the most complete mummified grey wolf of this era ever found.

"She's just so complete," said Julie Meachen, a vertebrate paleontologist from Des Moines University in Iowa and lead author of the new study published this week in the journal Current Biology. "She's so amazing. She's so intact. I mean she even has her fur. Everything is there."

The researchers were amazed to discover even the pup's internal organs were intact.

"We can just learn so much more from an animal with skin and fur and organs than we can with just bones," Meachen said. "This is kind of incredible that we can get all this detail from her when she lived so long ago." Read the free story.