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Ep. 466: Direwolves and Ancient Hunting Dogs

The MeatEater Podcast

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The Evolution of Dog Breeds

Archaeologists are breeding dogs with wolves to fight off the wolves. They're introducing local wolf genetics into dogs and this happens all over the place. There's a dog breed called a saralus that genetically looks like an ancient dog or i love talking about people about ancient breeds ancient dogs and why they look ancient but it's not.

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