Severed Head of a Giant 40,000-Year-Old Wolf Discovered in Russia

Live Science ^ | June 10, 2019 | Yasemin Saplakoglu

[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]

[rlmorel]

I got no problem with that.

I am not in favor of indiscriminate slaughter of wildlife, but if there is human death and suffering at the interface between humans and animals, I am generally in favor of humans at the expense of animals.

[magua]

I photographed a wolf in one of Italy’s national parks. And his head was nowhere as large as this wolves head, not even close. And I thought that wolf was a very large animal that I photographed. He turns out to be a mere child next to that head.

[The Westerner]

That’s the quote my dad used to teach us our responsibility to walk and feed the dogs. He was not a hunter except at the Bulge!

[\/\/ayne]

I heard those giant wolves are quite handy with the ladies.

[The Westerner]

Just discussed whether a little boy currently in love with plastic dinosaurs would be frightened of this real ancient wolf head? It resembles in scale those creepy looking monsters.

[Colt1851Navy]

Always quit while you are a head.

[rlmorel]

Your dad sounds like he had a good foundation...

[Hatteras]

"What do wolves have?"

AKC Registrations?

[magua]

Denisovan information can be found if you have your DNA is done by National Geographic. I had mine done and I know if two others that had theirs done by Nat Geo and that information was provided.

[The Westerner]

That fellow did!

[wardaddy]

Yakuts were meanies

[The Westerner]

Only thing is he taught us to think for ourselves, lol. To his dismay, I became an atheist in final year of religious training. Lucky for me, our religion loves a good argument on the topic so dad took the attitude it was a phase that would pass and didn’t get upset.

[wardaddy]

Movie not guilty

[grey_whiskers]

+1

[Tucker39]

I thought it was Ivan Denisovich. (?).

[Kommodor]

Good doggie!

(Good movie, too)

[Mr. Blond]

Dire Wolves were real.

[a fool in paradise]

How old is that in dog years?

[a fool in paradise]

What’s that in the road a head?

[rlmorel]

LOL, it was...I was just playing around with the name of the badass race of Neanderthals (or whatever they were) the “Denisovans”