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Earliest Domesticated Dog ?| |The skulls of two Stone Age dogs
believed to be the earliest known canines on record have been
found, according to a team of Russian scientists. The dog duo,
which lived approximately 14,000 years ago, appear to represent
the first step of domestication from their wild wolf ancestors.|
Mikhail Sablin, a scientist at the Zoological Institute of the
Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, along with his
colleague Gennady Khlopachev, analyzed the dog remains, which
were found at the Eliseevichi I site in the Bryansk region of
Russia's central plain, according to an Informnauka press agency
release. "We suggest that the dogs looked like present-day
Tibetan mastiffs or Caucasian sheep dogs," Sablin told Discovery
News. "The dogs had a much wider palate and shorter rostrum than
Siberian huskies and Great Danes. The reconstructed withers
height is about 70 cm (27.56 inches), therefore the dogs
belonged to a very strange a