A 40,000-year-old detached wolf head - with its brain intact - has been found in Siberia by scientists.
The snarling wolf head measuring 40cm long - about half of the full body length of a modern wolf - was discovered preserved in permafrost in North Yakutia, Siberia.
![The wolf, brain in tact, dates from more than 40,000 years ago. Photo / Albert Protopovov.](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/QS73R36WRWDOECWHJFOWYWOKPA.jpg?auth=f79e8b9f5673733d89e13839a9bccfe4d275e76c5e3e6e3f4c23c5a888ad5e5e&width=16&height=11&quality=70&smart=true)
The prehistoric remains were found by a local man named Pavel Efimov in the summer of 2018, between June and August, in a remote area near a river - but the find has only just been revealed.
The 40,000-year-old wolf - dated by Japanese scientists - was fully grown at two to four years old when it died, and it still has its thick mammoth fur and extraordinary fangs intact, reports The Siberian Times.