Doggies facts: from wolves to dogs

Here we go with a new scientific research! Are you ready? So if you are, let's go!

Your innocent and good dog, the one who plays with you, becomes from the wild wolf, an strong and georgeous hunter. And many of you may think: isn't that evident? But, well until now there wasn't any scientific research about this. 

They have found that the relationship with the humans began more than 18.800 years ago. Maybe amateur dogs or the curious ones should begging "visiting" humans to find some food from dead animals that humans killed. Since then the relationship between them have improved a lot because they find advantages on each other.Humans began domesticating them so that they could help them hunting. They have been only considerated pets for 2.000 years more than less.

Robert Wayne, who's the coauthor of the research from the UCLA publicated in the magazine Science, says that the wolf is the first specie and the only one big carnivorous that humans have domesticated.

But, what about the place and the time that it happens? 

Wolf skullthat is 26.000 years old

Until now the scientist thought that they were domesticated by farmers from Middle East, but in this research they have found that the first humans that domesticated them were hunters and gatherers from Europe around 18.800 and 32.100 ago.

In the research they have analyzed DNA from 18 prehistoric canids of Eurasia and America that are 32,000 years old more than less and they have compared it with many different modern breeds of dogs , wolves and coyotes. They have seen that the relation between modern dogs and European ancient wolves is bigger than it's between modern gogs and Asian wolves.

For example they have compared three American pre-Columbian dogs and they have seen that they have a common origin with European dogs, so that suggests that domesticated canines come to America with the first humans from Europe.

Dog skull that is36.000 years old

The scientists thinks that it is a big progress, but it isn't enough. They think that this data should be confirmed with different information, not only from the DNA because it can get easily useless because of their old age.

That's an interesting research, don't you think? We hope that they will be able to find out more about dog's origin in the future, and if they we'll tell you!

Don't hesitate to comment, and until the next post (I have heard it is about Labradors :3)!