The lower jawbone of the Taimyr Wolf that lived approximately 27,000 to 40,000 years ago. Genetic information from a 35,000-year-old wolf bone found below a frozen cliff in northernmost Russia is shedding new light on people's long relationship with dogs, showing canine domestication may have occurred earlier than previously thought. Photo: Reuters/Love Dalen
Genetic information from a 35,000-year-old wolf bone found below a frozen cliff in Siberia is shedding new light on humankind's long relationship with dogs, showing canine domestication may have occurred earlier than previously thought.
Today's dogs, from the Chihuahua to the Great Dane, are believed to have descended from wild wolves domesticated by humans in prehistoric times, but when this took place has been a matter of debate.
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