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The 18,000-year-old specimen was found preserved in permafrost in Russia last summer, but DNA sequencing still hasn’t been able to determine if the animal is a dog or a wolf. Host Marco Werman speaks with Dave Stanton, a research fellow at the Centre for Palaeogenetics in Stockholm.