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I wonder what preservation will be from this point out. I'm sure they'll take tons of photos, videos and fur samples they'll preserve, but can they keep this sp

I wonder what preservation will be from this point out. I'm sure they'll take tons of photos, videos and fur samples they'll preserve, but can they keep this specimen in tact? Are there ways to preserve it with the fur and whiskers and maybe even keep it on display as it is, or will it need to be taxidermeried? Edit: also those teeth! Do any other types of wolves/dogs have that crazy pattern?

ptaipale 7y ago
The teeth don't look particularly strange to me. Some modern dogs have teeth that look the same. Just duckduckgo "dog teeth" images.
carrozo 7y ago
Once they do tests wouldn’t best option be to refreeze? What a display case too!
pvg 7y ago
I don't know what's going to happen with this particular find but if you click through to the pages of various frozen mammoths here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolly_mammoth#Frozen_specimens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolly_mammoth#Frozen_specimen... you'll see everything from 'dunked in preservative and exhibited' to 'excavated as a giant chunk of permafrost and stashed in an ice cave'. The former seems more typical. Going all out, there's also this - a special facility to keep the specimen cold and, uh, moist it seems? http://www.iceman.it/en/the-mummy/ http://www.iceman.it/en/the-mummy/
CWarner818 7y ago
Even modern puppies have those small multiple ridges on their teeth. It's one of the most reliable indicators of a dogs age, as they tend to disappear as the dogs mature.
NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Typical carnivore incisors I think - check out lions, tigers and other cats as well as dogs. Much, much sharper than ours, ideal for scraping meat off bone. Pre-molars are much more complex and meat specialised than ours too.
frankharv 7y ago
What blows me away is that are able to peel his lips back to display the teeth. I don't understand how 18K year old flesh could still be pliable.
clort 7y ago
I'm sure Dr Gunther von Hagens would be interested in preserving this, if they didn't have any other ideas. Plastination is the process of replacing liquids and fats in the body by plastics, and IIRC if you use silicone it even feels soft and pliable (my friend touched one of the exhibits)

ptaipale 7y ago

The teeth don't look particularly strange to me. Some modern dogs have teeth that look the same. Just duckduckgo "dog teeth" images.

carrozo 7y ago

Once they do tests wouldn’t best option be to refreeze? What a display case too!

pvg 7y ago

I don't know what's going to happen with this particular find but if you click through to the pages of various frozen mammoths here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolly_mammoth#Frozen_specimens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolly_mammoth#Frozen_specimen... you'll see everything from 'dunked in preservative and exhibited' to 'excavated as a giant chunk of permafrost and stashed in an ice cave'. The former seems more typical. Going all out, there's also this - a special facility to keep the specimen cold and, uh, moist it seems? http://www.iceman.it/en/the-mummy/ http://www.iceman.it/en/the-mummy/

CWarner818 7y ago

Even modern puppies have those small multiple ridges on their teeth. It's one of the most reliable indicators of a dogs age, as they tend to disappear as the dogs mature.

NeedMoreTea 7y ago

Typical carnivore incisors I think - check out lions, tigers and other cats as well as dogs. Much, much sharper than ours, ideal for scraping meat off bone. Pre-molars are much more complex and meat specialised than ours too.

frankharv 7y ago

What blows me away is that are able to peel his lips back to display the teeth. I don't understand how 18K year old flesh could still be pliable.

clort 7y ago

I'm sure Dr Gunther von Hagens would be interested in preserving this, if they didn't have any other ideas. Plastination is the process of replacing liquids and fats in the body by plastics, and IIRC if you use silicone it even feels soft and pliable (my friend touched one of the exhibits)