Anonymous ID: abeae5 Nov. 27, 2019, 11:30 a.m. No.7384413   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4442

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Using carbon dating on the creature’s rib bone, experts from Sweden’s Centre for Palaeogenetics were able to confirm that the specimen had been frozen for around 18,000 years, but extensive DNA tests have so far been unable to show whether the animal was a dog or a wolf.

 

“It’s normally relatively easy to tell the difference between the two,” David Stanton, a researcher at the Centre for Palaeogenetics, told CNN.

 

“We have a lot of data from it already, and with that amount of data, you’d expect to tell if it was one or the other. The fact that we can’t might suggest that it’s from a population that was ancestral to both — to dogs and wolves,” he explained.

 

Stanton told CNN that the period the puppy is from is “a very interesting time in terms of wolf and dog evolution.”

https://fox2now.com/2019/11/27/is-it-a-dog-or-is-it-a-wolf-18000-year-old-frozen-puppy-leaves-scientists-baffled/