Space Daily September 15, 2026 • 10:15

A mammoth-ivory hunter pulled a wolf's head from the Siberian permafrost with its fur, whiskers and brain still intact — the animal had been dead for roughly 40,000 years - Space Daily

A mammoth-ivory hunter pulled a wolf's head from the Siberian permafrost with its fur, whiskers and brain still intact — the animal had been dead for roughly 40,000 years - Space Daily

The permafrost's deepest freezer just gave up one of its most pristine secrets—a wolf so perfectly preserved that scientists can study its brain, tissue and final moments from an Ice Age that ended long before humans domesticated its descendants.

Forty thousand years in cold storage, and the animal still looked annoyed.
That was roughly the scene on the bank of the Tirekhtyakh River in north-eastern Siberia in the summer of 2018, when a man … [+4638 chars]

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