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- Genetic evidence also reveals that dogs did not accompany the first humans to the New World more than 15,000 years ago, suggesting instead that dogs came to the Americas only some 10,000 years ago. One study even suggested that some dogs have descended not from the wolf but rather from the jackal.
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5 days ago · Paleontologists and archaeologists have determined that about 60 million years ago a small mammal, rather like a weasel, lived in the environs of what are now parts of Asia. It is called Miacis, the genus that became the ancestor of the animals known today as canids: dogs, jackals, wolves, and foxes.
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2 days ago · Domestication of the dog. The dog diverged from a now-extinct population of wolves 27,000–40,000 years ago immediately before the Last Glacial Maximum, [1] [2] when much of the mammoth steppe was cold and dry. The domestication of the dog was the process which led to the domestic dog. This included the dog's genetic divergence from the wolf ...
4 days ago · Labrador Retriever, breed of sporting dog that originated in Newfoundland and was brought to England by fishermen about 1800. It is characteristically rugged, even-tempered, and gentle. An ideal family pet, the Labrador Retriever became in the 1990s the most popular dog breed in the United States.
1 day ago · Lyciscus cagottis Hamilton-Smith, 1839. The coyote ( Canis latrans) is a species of canine native to North America. It is smaller than its close relative, the gray wolf, and slightly smaller than the closely related eastern wolf and red wolf. It fills much of the same ecological niche as the golden jackal does in Eurasia.
5 days ago · A pack of African wild dogs ( Lycaon pictus) warily approaches a remote camera near banks of Moremi River in Botswana. “Puppy-dog eyes didn’t just evolve for us, in domestic dogs,” says ...
4 days ago · Multiple migrations dispersed canids to Asia, Europe and Africa. Genus Canis first appeared in the late Miocene, c. 4.5-9 mya (Nowak 2003) North America fossils date to 4-11 mya (Tedford et al. 2009) Two coyote-sized fossil species represent the origins of the genus: C. ferox and C. lepophagus.
