Sorry, Mormons. It's way, way, older than six thousand years -- and wolves didn't turn into dogs on Noah's Ark.

https://www.boredpanda.com/18000-year-old-puppy-permafrost-could-be-oldest-dog-in-the-world/

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2019/nov/27/doggone-it-how-an-18000-year-old-puppy-could-change-everything-we-know-about-dogs

Back in the summer of 2018, scientists found a male puppy buried inside a lump of frozen ground near the Indigirka River, north-east of Yakutsk, Russia. The puppy’s full-body, thick hair, muzzle, and even whiskers and eyelashes were preserved by permafrost.

Scientists deduced that the dog was less than two months old when it died, but the cause of death is not yet determined. The near-perfectly preserved canine is an astonishing 18,000 years old and might be the ‘oldest confirmed dog’ in history. However, after studying it, scientists aren’t sure whether the ‘amazingly well-preserved’ creature is a dog or wolf – presumably because it comes from the point where dogs were domesticated.



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the only command it obeyed/ obeys is "Lay Down, Spot".

Dog is dead.

In the beginning there was dog and dog was good. Aren't you a good boy!

I am guessing that sixteen thousand years ago, domestication was relative to the level of how civilized the humans were at the time also. It probably wasn't so important that your wolf/dog doesn't make messes on your carpet, or that they stayed off of your kitchen table. If they were good hunting partners and they didn't threaten you very often (assuming you're careful in how you deal with them), they might fit in with the family just fine back then, especially as puppies. I am guessing that dogs and people might have become domesticated together at the same time as civilization progressed.

18,000 years? That's impossible. The earth is only 6,000 year old. Let's get some DNA, send it to South Korea for a clone. We'll just see what that doggy is all about.

It will be tough to identify as it appears that the pups ID tag fell off at some point and was lost. They should try scanning the obsidian chip implanted under its skin.

I was going to say that before sending the dog anywhere, you'd better have the Chinese do a facial recognition scan on it. That way you can always know where it is--

--and arrest it if it joins the picket lines in Hong Kong.

- And eat it if it escapes to Korea.

You are a bad man, Roy.

Even bad men need to eat.....and I do love to cook.

And like they say in Korea "when the cook gets cooking, the ruff get going." At least I think that's what they say....I may have lost something in the translation.

And the article (in a British tabloid no less):

>>However, after studying it, scientists aren’t sure whether the ‘amazingly well-preserved’ creature is a dog or wolf – presumably because it comes from the point where dogs were domesticated.

>>So far, DNA analysis has not been able to establish Dogor’s species. He might have been a very early modern wolf. He might have been a very late ice-age wolf. He might even have been be a very early domesticated dog.

From a standpoint of molecular biology, it's impossible to determine whether this animal was a wolf or a modern dog. The issue is a complex one; both dogs and wolves descended from a common ancestor back, well... A long time ago...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-wolves-really-became-dogs-180970014/

>>But controversies abound concerning where a long-feared animal first became our closest domestic partner. Genetic studies have pinpointed everywhere from southern China to Mongolia to Europe.

>>Scientists cannot agree on the timing, either. Last summer, research reported in Nature Communications pushed likely dates for domestication further back into the past, suggesting that dogs were domesticated just once at least 20,000 but likely closer to 40,000 years ago.

The Nature article is linked as well. Note the gap between 16,000 years and 40,000 years...

"But controversies abound concerning where a long-feared animal first became our closest domestic partner."

Sounds like some relationships I have seen between humans over my years.

I know that in golf, a caddy and his pro can be closer domestic partners to each other than to their wives.

Weird, huh?

Is there something you want to tell us?

My polygamist sister said she has a closer relationship with her sister wives than my brother in law or should I say Brigham in law.

I'm not going to try to fathom the motives of those attempting to derail my reply. A note to Elder B: Robert Kirby said to blow you a kiss...

Okay, I made that up. I'm not making up this peer-reviewed source, however.

https://www.nature.com/articles/cr2015147

>>The origin and evolution of the domestic dog remains a controversial question for the scientific community, with basic aspects such as the place and date of origin, and the number of times dogs were domesticated, open to dispute.

>>Using whole genome sequences . . . we find that dogs from southern East Asia have significantly higher genetic diversity compared to other populations, and are the most basal group relating to gray wolves, indicating an ancient origin of domestic dogs in southern East Asia 33 000 years ago.

>>Around 15 000 years ago, a subset of ancestral dogs started migrating to the Middle East, Africa and Europe, arriving in Europe at about 10 000 years ago. One of the out of Asia lineages also migrated back to the east, creating a series of admixed populations with the endemic Asian lineages in northern China before migrating to the New World.

Q.E.D.

Did you read the statement in the peer-reviewed link I provided?

>>The origin and evolution of the domestic dog remains a controversial question for the scientific community, with basic aspects such as the place and date of origin, and the number of times dogs were domesticated, open to dispute.

Best guess? By whom? You?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_the_domestic_dog



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From your own Wiki "source" (although it is hardly peer-reviewed, honest)

>>When, where, and how many times wolves may have been domesticated remains debated because only a small number of ancient specimens have been found, and both archaeology and genetics continue to provide conflicting evidence.

>>The archaeological record and genetic analysis show the remains of the Bonn–Oberkassel dog buried beside humans 14,200 years ago to be the first undisputed dog.

There's a four thousand year gap between that specimen and the one from Siberia.

and there's a lot we don't know

Who said it was domesticated? Why can’t dogs be free?

Free your dogs and the rest will follow...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_dogs_in_Moscow

>> "However, after studying it, scientists aren’t sure whether the ‘amazingly well-preserved’ creature is a dog or wolf"


So what's its pronoun?