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- Dogs' Intelligence On Par With Two-Year-Old Human, Canine Researcher Says http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090810025241.htm 2 comments
- 8,000-year-old engravings, found on a Saudi Arabia cliffside, could be the earliest known depiction of dogs and humans hunting together http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/11/these-may-be-world-s-first-images-dogs-and-they-re-wearing-leashes?utm_source=newsfromscience&utm_medium=reddit&utm_campaign=dogleash-16411 14 comments science
- Analysis of human and dog bones from a 30,000-year-old site in the Czech Republic shows that while humans ate large quantities of mammoth meat, dogs had a diet that consisted of mostly reindeer. http://www.archaeology.org/news/2729-141124-mammoth-consumption-hunting 3 comments science
- 5- to 9-year-old children chose to save multiple dogs over 1 human, and valued the life of a dog as much as a human. By contrast, almost all adults chose to save 1 human over even 100 dogs. The view that humans are morally more important than animals appears later and may be socially acquired. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956797620960398 5141 comments science
- Wolf-to-dog transition had little to do with humans, 33,000 year old skull suggests; the phenomenon probably happened many times in many places around the globe http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/12/18/wolf-to-dog-transition-had-little-to-do-with-humans-ancient-skull-suggests/ 43 comments science
- 11,500-year-old animal bones in Jordan suggest early dogs helped humans hunt. Archaeologists suggest that the introduction of dogs as hunting aids may explain the dramatic increase of hares and other small prey in the archaeological remains at the site. https://news.ku.dk/all_news/2019/01/11500-year-old-animal-bones-in-jordan-suggest-early-dogs-helped-humans-hunt/ 6 comments science
- Scientists analyzed the genomes of 27 ancient dogs to study their origins and connection to ancient humans. Findings suggest that humans' relationship to dogs is more than 11,000-years old and could be more complex than simple companionship. https://www.inverse.com/science/ancient-dog-dna-reveal 795 comments science
- A bone found from a dog (that is about 10,200 years old) supports the idea that dogs accompanied the first humans who set foot on these continents—and that both traveled there along the Pacific coast. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/02/remains-oldest-american-dog-bolster-idea-first-humans-arrived-along-coast 17 comments science
- Research confirms the oldest dog remains found in the Americas. The femur bone in question is approximately 10,150 years old and suggests the first humans who migrated to the Americas journeyed with dogs. https://www.inverse.com/science/oldest-american-dog-remains-bone-study 4 comments science