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Severed Head of a Giant 40,000-Year-Old Wolf Discovered in Russia
Live Science ^ | June 10, 2019 | Yasemin Saplakoglu

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]

(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...


TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: canines; godsgravesglyphs; ice; pavelefimov; pleistocene; russia; tirekhtyakhriver; wolf; yakutia
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To: wardaddy; OttawaFreeper; Rebelbase

100% not guilty...for men of a certain generation, she was iconic, that is for sure!

Now, when I saw her in “Fantastic Voyage” wearing that skintight white neoprene suit, I was still at the stage in my life when I was just starting to look at girls and think they might not really be the enemy...

When those guys all started pulling the antibodies off of Raquel Welch’s body, that theater felt too warm and my clothes started feeling kind of tight!

There was a funny story I heard about that scene.

Apparently, when the time came to shoot that scene, the director said “ACTION!” and the guys all began pulling the antibodies off of her. after a few seconds, he yelled “CUT!” All the guys looked up in surprise and when one of them asked what was wrong, he pointed at Raquel who had all the “antibodies” removed from everywhere except on her boobs and her crotch. The director, pointing at her said “She looks like a damn burlesque dancer there!” Nobody had wanted to be, er...”ungentlemanly”, so they all avoided those parts.

When they shot it again, they all went straight for her boobs and crotch at the same time as the director yelled “CUT! CUT!” Then he said to one guy “You remove them from here!” as he pointed to each of them and assigned an area for them to remove antibodies from!


61 posted on 06/11/2019 12:49:44 PM PDT by rlmorel (Trump to China: This Capitalist Will Not Sell You the Rope with Which You Will Hang Us.)
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To: webheart

What do wolves have?

Wolf breath.


62 posted on 06/11/2019 12:50:17 PM PDT by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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To: Beowulf9

Hahahahaha! For a second, I thought that was an Al Bundy reference with Peg next to him, but realized it was Laverne and some other guy!


63 posted on 06/11/2019 12:52:11 PM PDT by rlmorel (Trump to China: This Capitalist Will Not Sell You the Rope with Which You Will Hang Us.)
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To: Rebelbase

I always joked that, in the days before cell phones when I was on call, I had to know the location of every pay phone on the way to and from work in much the same way those Denisovans probably had to know where every tree was at any given time with these wolves and saber toothed cats running around!


64 posted on 06/11/2019 12:54:47 PM PDT by rlmorel (Trump to China: This Capitalist Will Not Sell You the Rope with Which You Will Hang Us.)
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To: Varda
What you posted about the size is not even close to accurate. I don't know where they got that from......

Height: 2.2 – 2.7 ft. (Adult, At Shoulder)

Length: 3.9 – 6.6 ft. (Adult)

Mass: Male: 66 – 180 lbs (Adult), Female: 51 – 120 lbs (Adult)

65 posted on 06/11/2019 1:02:50 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I'm in the cleaning business.......I launder money)
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To: Hot Tabasco

What you have there are measurements from the tip of the nose to the tip of the tail. I’m talking about just body length. The body is usually measured from point of the shoulder (where the scapula meets the humerus) to point of the rump (hip meets femur).


66 posted on 06/11/2019 1:17:49 PM PDT by Varda
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To: Hot Tabasco

The bigger sizes you list would be MacKenzie Valley wolves and the heaviest on record is 175 lbs (rumored to go over 200). It’s listed as having a head 12 inches long (Pleistocene wolf head is +25%).


67 posted on 06/11/2019 1:33:35 PM PDT by Varda
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To: Varda
What you have there are measurements from the tip of the nose to the tip of the tail. I’m talking about just body length. The body is usually measured from point of the shoulder (where the scapula meets the humerus) to point of the rump (hip meets femur).

No it's not, the body length is the "body" length. Not nose to tail

Then explain to me how the Siberian news can state that the wolf's body measured at only 26 inches to 34 inches ( that's between two and three feet long) can weigh as much as the wolves that I posted in my previous post?

Let's see, a three foot long male wolf weighing 66 to 180 lbs. and a female weighing 50 to 120 lbs. would be so damn fat that they would be lucky they could even walk...........LOL!

68 posted on 06/11/2019 2:26:39 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I'm in the cleaning business.......I launder money)
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To: Varda
If I'm not mistaken, the article compared the skull to today's modern wolves......

That's about half the size of a modern wolf's body, which can range from 26 inches (66 cm) to 34 inches (86 cm) long, according to The Siberian Times.

69 posted on 06/11/2019 2:31:04 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I'm in the cleaning business.......I launder money)
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To: C19fan; Rebelbase

Clone and cross breed with great Danes, saint Bernies, and other similarly large dogs, create “Dire Fido”.


70 posted on 06/11/2019 3:07:45 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: webheart

Other kinds of bling, apparently.


71 posted on 06/11/2019 3:14:12 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: C19fan

Fenrir?


72 posted on 06/11/2019 3:20:22 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: rlmorel

Try “1,000,000 B.C.”, starring Ringo Starr and Raquel Welch. That one was hilarious, and Raquel is always worth watching.


73 posted on 06/11/2019 3:37:14 PM PDT by jimtorr
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To: Rebelbase
wolf??? looks more like a wolfhound to me
74 posted on 06/11/2019 3:41:00 PM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: C19fan

Short faced bears were quite cute. It would cuddle right up to you.


75 posted on 06/11/2019 4:01:33 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: C19fan
The dire wolf was a formidable predator, measuring almost five feet from head to tail and weighing in the vicinity of 150 to 200 pounds - about 25 percent bigger than the biggest dog alive today (the American mastiff), and 25 percent heavier than the largest gray wolves.

Otherwise know as short faced bear snack.

76 posted on 06/11/2019 4:12:19 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF

Does intra-species brain size relate to intelligence?
My little mini-doxies were as intelligent as any large dog I ever had.
And huge dogs seem to be big, lovable and dumb.


77 posted on 06/11/2019 4:17:24 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: jimtorr

Heheh, Ringo Starr...:)

Yeah, Raquel was a beautiful woman...


78 posted on 06/11/2019 4:48:53 PM PDT by rlmorel (Trump to China: This Capitalist Will Not Sell You the Rope with Which You Will Hang Us.)
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To: econjack
"Kinda makes you wonder how mean the SOB was who killed the wolf!"

Peter actually changed his mind after the story ended, and he, and the hunters slayed The Wolf.

79 posted on 06/11/2019 7:45:33 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: a fool in paradise
I haven't seen the radiocollie dating results yet.

80 posted on 06/12/2019 12:16:38 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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