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Related: About this forumWoolly severed head of a giant Ice Age wolf - nearly TWICE the size of its modern-day descendants...
... - is found preserved in permafrost in Siberia after 40,000 years
Scientists have unveiled the severed head of a huge Ice Age wolf baring its teeth, which dates back more than 40,000 years.
The snarling beast with its brain intact was found preserved in permafrost in the Yakutia region on Siberia.
The head is almost 16 inches long, nearly twice the size of the head of its modern-day descendant, the Gray wolf, at 9.1-11 inches.
It was discovered above the Arctic Circle by local man Pavel Efimov in summer 2018 near the remote Tirekhtyakh River but the find was only now revealed.
The snarling beast with its brain intact was found preserved in permafrost in the Yakutia region on Siberia.
The head is almost 16 inches long, nearly twice the size of the head of its modern-day descendant, the Gray wolf, at 9.1-11 inches.
It was discovered above the Arctic Circle by local man Pavel Efimov in summer 2018 near the remote Tirekhtyakh River but the find was only now revealed.
[link:https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7128105/Giant-head-wolf-severed-body-40-000-years-ago-unearthed.html|
How amazing. Imagine bumping into that on the way home from work
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Woolly severed head of a giant Ice Age wolf - nearly TWICE the size of its modern-day descendants... (Original Post)
Soph0571
Jun 2019
OP
"The wolf was found around the same time as a previously announced cave lion cub named Spartak"
eppur_se_muova
Jun 2019
#7
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)1. Shaggy Dog?
That is where your head ended up.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)2. Cujo! (But imagine what severed the head)
Loki Liesmith
(4,602 posts)3. Might as well be a bear
mitch96
(13,938 posts)4. Nice puppy, nice puppy...
The DNA investigation should be interesting
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Soph0571
(9,685 posts)5. In tact brain...
... want to bet the scientist go all Jurassic park on us?
mitch96
(13,938 posts)6. "go all Jurassic park on us?"
Now that would be a hoot.. Sequence the genes from BIG wolf to a modern wolf or wolf/dog hybrid.. Some scientists were thinking of doing it with wooly mammoth genes into a modern elephant..
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eppur_se_muova
(36,317 posts)7. "The wolf was found around the same time as a previously announced cave lion cub named Spartak"
Well, that's pretty cool too !
yonder
(9,685 posts)8. Clone it.
BootinUp
(47,209 posts)9. Awe, a squee thread.
BigmanPigman
(51,649 posts)10. There is good and bad when the perma frost melts from climate change.
We get to discover all sorts of preserved artifacts which is good to study and learn from but it also is releasing bad gas into the atmosphere which accelerates climate change, making more perma frost melt, etc.
SaveOurDemocracy
(4,400 posts)11. Direwolf!
Javaman
(62,534 posts)12. so that's what happened to Ghost. nt