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Reply With QuoteThat's very interesting. How are they differentiating this prehistoric dog from a wolf?
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World’s first prehistoric dog dated back 31,000 years ago
An international team of scientists have announced that the world’s first known dog was a large and toothy canine that lived over 31,000 years ago on a diet of horse, musk ox and reindeer.
Their research, which is awaiting publication in the Journal of Archaeological Science, could push the existing date for the earliest dog back by 17,700 years; the second oldest known dog, found in Russia, dates to 14,000 years ago.
"The most remarkable difference between these dogs and recent dog breeds is the size of the teeth," says lead author Dr Mietje Germonpré, comparing the tooth size more to wolves than dogs.
"In shape, the Palaeolithic dogs most resemble the Siberian husky, but in size, however, they were somewhat larger, probably comparable to large shepherd dogs," adds Germonpré, a palaeontologist at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences.
The remains of the older prehistoric dog were excavated at Goyet Cave in Belgium. They suggest to the researchers that the Aurignacian people of Europe from the Upper Palaeothic period first domesticated dogs.
Source: ABC Science Online, Australia
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That's very interesting. How are they differentiating this prehistoric dog from a wolf?
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That's really cool. its amazing what they can find with technology these days.
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Interesting,I wonder how they could differentiate that....
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