The transitory phases of the wolf into the domesticated dog has been a point of debate among evolutionary scientists. At last, the perfectly-preserved body of something close to the earliest dog has been found in Yakutsk, Siberia. Researchers in Sweden have been working on the case of Dogor, named after the word for ‘friend’ in Yakutian. Dogor’s body is exactly 18,000 years and two months old, and dates approximately from the time when wolves were evolving into dogs and had just begun to be domesticated. The dog has been found to be a male, with his whiskers and eyelashes miraculously intact. Scientists say Dogor was two when he died.