Huge, Shaggy Head Of 40,000-Year-Old Wolf Unearthed In Siberia
The 40,000-year-old head of a Pleistocene wolf.Image: Albert Protopopov
A well-preserved head belonging to an ancient species of Pleistocene wolf has been pulled from the permafrost of northeastern Siberia. A CT scan of the wolf skull.Image: Albert Protopopov, Naoki Suzuki
“It is a very exciting discovery, and as the remains seem well-preserved it will hopefully be possible to obtain high-quality DNA to examine the animal’s genome, and compare both its genomic profile and anatomy with that of modern wolves from Siberia and beyond,” said Astrid Vik Stronen, an ecologist from the Department of Biotechnology and Life Sciences at Insubria University in Italy who’s also not involved with the new research, in an email to Gizmodo. This is truly a remarkable discovery, and as both Meachen and Stronen pointed out, the best is yet to come in terms of what we’ll learn from this incredibly well-preserved wolf head.
Source: gizmodo.com