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Two Ice Age ‘puppies’ weren’t exactly dogs

Andrew Paul

created: June 11, 2025, 11:01 p.m. | updated: June 21, 2025, 11 p.m.

Take the Tumat puppies, for example. However, according to a recent reevaluation detailed in a study published on June 11 in the journal Quaternary Research, the Tumat puppies weren’t puppies at all—they were likely wolf cubs. One of the Tumat puppies recovered in Siberia. Their data suggests the sister cubs were around two months’ old when they died (likely during a landslide), and maintained an omnivorous diet similar to today’s wolves. When first discovered, the Tumat cubs were interred near woolly mammoth bones, some of which displayed signs of human processing and cooking.

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