{"id":112228,"date":"2020-08-30T15:29:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T22:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/snarling-head-of-giant-40000-yr-old-wolf-found-with-hair-and-brain-intact"},"modified":"2020-08-30T15:29:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T22:29:21","slug":"snarling-head-of-giant-40000-yr-old-wolf-found-with-hair-and-brain-intact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/snarling-head-of-giant-40000-yr-old-wolf-found-with-hair-and-brain-intact","title":{"rendered":"Snarling Head of Giant 40,000-yr-old Wolf Found with Hair and Brain Intact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8CKWFcyON2Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>An amazingly well-preserved head of an ancient wolf has been identified. A Russian man named Pavel Efimov was out for a walk last summer when he came across a startling sight. Along the shore of the Tirekhtyakh River in Siberia\u2019s Yakutia, he spotted a huge severed animal head. On closer inspection, it looked like it could be a wolf\u2013with a full head of hair. Its long sharp teeth were intact, making the beast look as if it were still snarling.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists that Efimov carried the head to ran many tests and have just concluded that it was indeed a wolf and estimated the animal was about 40,000 years old. The head alone measured a whopping 16 inches in length. And, yes, the brain was intact.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a unique discovery of the first-ever remains of a fully grown Pleistocene wolf with its tissue preserved,\u201d paleontologist Albert Protopopov from the Republic of Sakha Academy of Sciences told <em>The Siberian Times<\/em>. \u201cWe will be comparing it to modern-day wolves to understand how the species has evolved and to reconstruct its appearance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An amazingly well-preserved head of an ancient wolf has been identified. A Russian man named Pavel Efimov was out for a walk last summer when he came across a startling sight. Along the shore of the Tirekhtyakh River in Siberia\u2019s Yakutia, he spotted a huge severed animal head. On closer inspection, it looked like it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/517"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}