A Russian man stumbled on a ghastly sight while strolling along the Tirekhtyakh riverbank last summer. It was the ferocious severed head of a gigantic wolf.
The grisly remains still had all of its hair and its fangs, but the animal wasn’t even remotely a recent find. The man who made the discovery in Abyisky District of Yakutia, Pavel Efimov, delivered the wolf head to local scientists to examine. They found from examination that it dated back some 40,000 years ago—a remarkable age considering how well preserved it was.
