Amazingly preserved puppy with whiskers, eyelashes hair and velvety nose intact puzzle scientist

[MindWars]

'It's 18k years old! So far, we have sequenced it's genome to 2X coverage. But we still can't say if it's a wolf or a dog. Maybe it's the common ancestor? More sequencing needed! Picture: Sergey Fedorov

Amazingly preserved puppy with whiskers, eyelashes, hair and velvety nose intact puzzle scientists

Imagine that-------------- they probably know why and just act like they don't.

 

[toobfreak]

'It's 18k years old! So far, we have sequenced it's genome to 2X coverage. But we still can't say if it's a wolf or a dog. Maybe it's the common ancestor? More sequencing needed! Picture: Sergey Fedorov

Amazingly preserved puppy with whiskers, eyelashes, hair and velvety nose intact puzzle scientists

Imagine that-------------- they probably know why and just act like they don't.

That was right around the time of the first evidence of man's domestication of wolves/dogs in the Late Tarantian near the end of the Neanderthals.