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14,000-year-old ice age 'puppies' were actually wolf sisters that dined on woolly rhino for last meal

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A pair of 14,000-year-old "puppies" found melting out of the permafrost in Siberia have undergone genetic testing.

The mummified animal carcasses were found in 2011 and 2015 near the rural settlement of Tumat in far northern Siberia .

DNA testing in 2019 showed they likely belonged to an extinct wolf population unrelated to today 's dogs.

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