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Wolves Were Our Pets Before Dogs

Remains on a small island in the Baltic Sea suggest that humans kept and cared for wolves for thousands of years before they ...
Scientists have uncovered ancient wolf remains on a small Baltic island where wolves could only have been brought by humans.
New evidence of wolves and humans living together on Swedish island points to likely prehistoric domestication ...
New research shows humans may have brought wolves to a remote island, fed them, and cared for them thousands of years ago.
Who said it first, no one knows. But Frederick the Great, warrior ruler and enlightened despot of 18th-century Prussia, said it well. “The only, absolute and best friend a man has, in this selfish ...
Your pet dog -- and every other dog in the world -- most likely descended from a single population of wolves that lived 20,000 to 40,000 years ago, according to a new study in the journal Nature ...
A new study has revealed that dogs began their physical transformation from wolves during the Middle Stone Age - several centuries earlier than previously thought. In the 21st century, it is difficult ...
A remarkable discovery on a remote Swedish island is reshaping what scientists know about early human–wolf relationships and ...