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According to this study, modern dogs derived from ancient wolves that inhabited Europe and are now extinct.

The researchers studied 10 ancient "wolf-like" animals and eight "dog-like" animals, mostly from Europe. These animals were all more than 1,000 years old, most were thousands of years old, and two were more than 30,000 years old. The biologists studied the mitochondrial DNA of the animals, which is abundant in ancient remains. By comparing this ancient mitochondrial DNA with the modern mitochondrial genomes of 77 domestic dogs, 49 wolves and four coyotes, the researchers determined that the domestic dogs were genetically grouped with ancient wolves or dogs from Europe -- not with wolves found anywhere else in the world or even with modern European wolves. http://ow.ly/yjpMK




Dogs likely originated in Europe more than 18,000 years ago, biologists...

Wolves likely were domesticated by European hunter-gatherers more than 18,000 years ago, and gradually...

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