40,000 year old wolf discovered in Yakutia

[onetreeman]

Interesting read for Monday morning.

https://siberiantimes.com/science/ca...ed-in-yakutia/

[grouse_hunter]

Thank you for the post! Quite the archeological find. Looks like a big dog, good thing that their modern day relatives are smaller.

[nast70]

Nobody said it yet???

DIREWOLF!!

[Grizzly Adams]

Originally Posted by grouse_hunter

Thank you for the post! Quite the archeological find. Looks like a big dog, good thing that their modern day relatives are smaller.

Would have made heck of a trophy though. Think the "snarling" is just somebody's imagination, trying to live up to the image. Gotta wonder what killed him, wolves seldom die natural deaths. They found a similar wolf pup in a Yukon placer mine.

Grizz

[^v^Tinda wolf^v^]

That’s really cool! Surely a werewolf head! The end is near!! 😬

[Buckhead]

Interesting read;

Although I doubt that it is 40,000 years old.
Probably has to do with the Younger Dryas event approximately 12,800 to 11,500 years ago and the resulting megafauna extinctions.

[CaberTosser]

What should the finders expect to get paid for the pelt at auction?

[Buckhead]

Originally Posted by CaberTosser

What should the finders expect to get paid for the pelt at auction?

I think Fred Flintstone used Clams as money. So maybe 50.
I didn't see the rest of the body just the head.

[Red Bullets]

Pretty macabre neat find. Bet a pack of these 'wolves' would of had spine chilling yodels. 30K years ago wolves were starting to be domesticated. This wolf would have made a heck of a companion.

[landowner]

Could they take some DNA from this and do a cloning / Jurassic park kind of thing?

[KGB]

Originally Posted by landowner

Could they take some DNA from this and do a cloning / Jurassic park kind of thing?

And then release them inside the parliament building? As a proof of global warming! I like that idea!