Woolly severed head of a giant Ice Age wolf - nearly TWICE the size of its modern-day descendants...

[Soph0571]

... - 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.

[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

[exboyfil]

1. Shaggy Dog?

That is where your head ended up.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Cujo! (But imagine what severed the head)

[Loki Liesmith]

3. Might as well be a bear

[mitch96]

4. Nice puppy, nice puppy...

The DNA investigation should be interesting
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[Soph0571]

5. In tact brain...

... want to bet the scientist go all Jurassic park on us?

[mitch96]

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]

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]

8. Clone it.

[BootinUp]

9. Awe, a squee thread.

[BigmanPigman]

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]

11. Direwolf!

[Javaman]

12. so that's what happened to Ghost. nt

[hunter]

13. I've walked with the like. Terrible pets.

My wife always picks out the animal shelter death row dogs.

I've never been certain I'm not one of them.

The only worse are dragons, but with dragons you are the pet.

Far worse than Alf eating the outdoor neighborhood cats.