...we wondered aloud...what if tigers had wings and could drop out of the sky and haul people away...
We immediately looked at each other and said simultaneously: "Naaah. Never happen. They would be hunted by men to extinction without mercy."
Posted on 06/11/2019 9:27:21 AM PDT by C19fan
Last summer, a Russian man was strolling along the shore of the local Tirekhtyakh River in Yakutia when he came upon a grisly sight: the severed head of an ancient wolf. The head had been well preserved by the permafrost and still sported a full head of hair and sharp fangs.
The man, Pavel Efimov, handed the ancient head over to scientists, who dated it to over 40,000 years ago, or the end of the Pleistocene epoch, according to The Siberian Times. Their analysis also revealed that the wolf was fully grown and was between 2 and 4 years old when it died. [Image Gallery: 25 Amazing Ancient Beasts]
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Auto correction changer the word liger to liver.
One other classic in that genre (movies about prehistoric times that are abominably bad) is 1950’s “Prehistoric Women” with Laurette Luez.
...we wondered aloud...what if tigers had wings and could drop out of the sky and haul people away...
We immediately looked at each other and said simultaneously: "Naaah. Never happen. They would be hunted by men to extinction without mercy."
A Day In The Life of Ivan Denisova!
probably carbon dating, I would guess.
Not worried about it. Looks like a lone wolf.
Would that be the rabbit that invented the gun for that caveman?
There was supposedly an Eagle in New Zealand that could take some people.
I imagine the followers of Roger Caras, who popularized loving wolves back in the 1970s, are heartbroken over the slaughter of this “poor innocent creature!”
[[Clone only cute and cuddly Ice Age mammals like the mammoth not this killer.]]
MaMMoths were silent but deadly killers- their farts caused climate change
I don’t have any idea how they can tell that the wolf lived to be 40,000 years old. Trees have rings. What do wolves have?
[[Trees have rings. What do wolves have?]]
Birth certificates?
Fascinating! Another article on that site reports that ancient wolves split from dogs @27k years ago.
To be honest, I wish real journalism would have taken place and provided more context. The head about half the length of a full grown modern wolf does not help. If it would have said, this wolf would have stood eight taller with twice the weight, I would have been able to imagine the scale.
Right now, I don’t know what the larger head means.
those eagles killed 20 foot tall birds giant rheas or something like that- those eagles were nuttin to mess with
Survival of the fittest or as said in the Bible, “man is the king of beasts”.
(From Princess Mononoke)
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