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Siberian Wolf
June 21 , 2019
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- A 40,000-year-old severed wolf's head, preserved by permafrost complete with teeth and fur has been discovered in eastern Siberia.
- It has been found on the banks of the Tirekhtyakh River in Yakuti, Siberia of Russia.
- The wolf lived during the Pleistocene era or the Ice Age.
- Due to global warming and thawing of permafrost more such remains are expected.
- Earlier this year, scientists had announced the discovery of liquid blood and urine within the frozen remains of a 42,000-year-old foal, also preserved in permafrost.
- An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.
- Earth is currently in the Quaternary glaciation, known in popular terminology as the Ice Age.
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