Ep. 466: Direwolves and Ancient Hunting Dogs
The MeatEater Podcast
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The History of Dogs
A dog that has recent ancestry of a wolf is gonna morphologically look probably a lot like a wolf but you know we i think what happened with dogs and the reason why no one can sort out your question of like why when how where when did this all happen it's probably because dogs if they're domesticated in somewhere like siberia. Dogs are interbreeding with asian wolves and european wolves and wolves in germany wolves everywhere, so then they end up looking all of them end up looking ancient but with independent local wolf populations being kind of blended in there.
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