{"id":24043,"date":"2016-03-28T14:40:02","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T21:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/cavemans-best-friends-preserved-ice-age-puppies-awe-scientists"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:04:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:04:30","slug":"cavemans-best-friends-preserved-ice-age-puppies-awe-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/cavemans-best-friends-preserved-ice-age-puppies-awe-scientists","title":{"rendered":"Caveman\u2019s best friends? Preserved Ice Age puppies awe scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cavemans-best-friends-preserved-ice-age-puppies-awe-scientists.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Moscow (AFP) \u2014 The hunters searching for mammoth tusks were drawn to the steep riverbank by a deposit of ancient bones. To their astonishment, they discovered an Ice Age puppy\u2019s snout peeking out from the permafrost.<\/p>\n<p>Five years later, a pair of puppies perfectly preserved in Russia\u2019s far northeast region of Yakutia and dating back 12,460 years has mobilised scientists across the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo find a carnivorous mammal intact with skin, fur and internal organs \u2014 this has never happened before in history,\u201d said Sergei Fyodorov, head of exhibitions at the Mammoth Museum of the North-Eastern Federal University in the regional capital of Yakutsk.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/cavemans-best-friends-preserved-ice-age-puppies-awe-052035084.html\">http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/cavemans-best-friends-preserved-ice-ag...35084.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow (AFP) \u2014 The hunters searching for mammoth tusks were drawn to the steep riverbank by a deposit of ancient bones. To their astonishment, they discovered an Ice Age puppy\u2019s snout peeking out from the permafrost. Five years later, a pair of puppies perfectly preserved in Russia\u2019s far northeast region of Yakutia and dating back [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67891,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24043\/revisions\/67891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}