Wolves were here long before Man changed them into what they wanted… Typical humans… always trying to change the environment.
Remains of a supposed dog dating to 31,680 years ago actually belonged to a wolf, according to a new study that has canine experts completely rethinking the origin and ancestry of dogs.
The study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, says that domestication of dogs happened during the Neolithic era (10,200 B.C.-2,000 B.C.) — when people began to farm and form permanent settlements — as opposed to the Paleolithic era (2.6 million years ago to 10,200 B.C.) , when humans and their early ancestors were hunter-gatherers.
“Previous research has claimed that dogs emerged in the Paleolithic but this claim is based on inaccurate analyses,” lead author Abby Grace Drake told Discovery News. “We reanalyzed some of the fossil canids from the Paleolithic and show that they are, in fact, wolves.”