# GoldNotes.com: Zhùr source and claim check
Reviewed November 7, 2026. Original Facebook URL: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19vCnNgbRN/?mibextid=wwXIfr

## Findings
- Confirmed historical discovery: Neil Loveless, July 2016, Last Chance Creek, Yukon. Not a new 2026 discovery.
- Published research: Current Biology, December 2020; DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2020.11.011. Full main text retrieved and reviewed.
- Geological age: radiocarbon >50,000 years; combined DNA and isotope inference approximately 56,000–57,000 years. Not an exact single radiocarbon result.
- Age at death: six–seven weeks, based on bone development under stated comparison assumptions. The paper records erupted baby teeth.
- Den collapse: supported reconstruction, not direct observation of instantaneous death.
- Diet: substantial aquatic contribution; freshwater resources or migratory salmon. Exact final meal/species not established by a recovered stomach meal in the paper.
- Genetics: ancient maternal lineage with Beringian/Russian affinities and regional population replacement; avoid claiming no relationship to modern wolves.
- Cultural context: Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in naming and respectful physical/spiritual care are substantive parts of the account.
- Nun Cho Ga: separate 2022 mammoth discovery; age quoted as the announcement's estimate, not a newly checked revised date.
- The Facebook collage was inspected but not republished or used to authenticate the specimen. The article uses an original, explicitly labelled chronology graphic.
- Reader comments, personal details, full third-party captures and unrelated adjacent stories are excluded from this public package.
- Direct Yukon.ca retrieval returned 403; the extraction service recovered the mammoth announcement and fossil-reporting guidance. The Zhùr release is explicitly an official archived 2020 document. Historical visitor hours and display status are not represented as current.

## Sources
1. Government of Yukon — archived 2020 Zhùr announcement — https://open.yukon.ca/information/a85a97cc-99fd-45a5-ae7f-81ca844c7805/resource/a8e69e24-b2f6-4c93-a160-a4d103ee2cbb/download/20-387.html
2. University of Alaska Fairbanks — research summary, December 21, 2020 — https://www.uaf.edu/news/archives/news-archives-2010-2021/research-offers-glimpse-into-life-of-57000-year-old-wolf-pup.php
3. CBC North / Radio Canada International — discovery and cultural context, December 21, 2020 — https://www.rcinet.ca/eye-on-the-arctic/2020/12/21/kind-of-incredible-researchers-uncover-details-about-ice-age-wolf-pup-found-in-yukon
4. Yukon and Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in — Nun Cho Ga discovery announcement, 2022 — https://yukon.ca/en/news/mummified-baby-woolly-mammoth-found-gold-miner-klondike
5. Government of Yukon — Report a fossil find — https://yukon.ca/en/report-fossil-find
6. Meachen and colleagues — A mummified Pleistocene gray wolf pup, Current Biology (2020) — https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2820%2931686-9
7. Dailystories — supplied Facebook lead, viewed November 7, 2026 — https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19vCnNgbRN/?mibextid=wwXIfr