Sentences with phrase «ancient breeds still»

Not exact matches

«The science here is still in its infancy,» says Weeks, who compares today's algae specialists to the ancient Mesoamericans who domesticated teosinte, the slender, meager grain that was bred into modern corn after some 8,000 years of cultivation.

Although the exact details regarding the domestication of the dog is still unknown, historians are able to trace the origins of most of today's breeds to these ancient breeds or to the extinct breeds they came from.

This breed comes from Sweden and it is a spitz - type dog that, while ancient in terms of its origins, is still rare.

It is one of the few ancient dog breeds still in existence in the world today.

The saluki, an ancient breed also known as the Persian greyhound, gazelle hound and Arabian hound, was the royal dog of ancient Egypt and is still greatly prized by both nomadic and settled Arabs in the Middle East.

They are sight hounds, and one of the most ancient dog breeds still existing in the world.

Even though the mastiff family is one of the oldest and most influential, the breed is undoubtedly of more recent, though still ancient, origin.

But supporters of the theory contend that enough of the foundational stock is ancient, including the greyhound and the Khoikhoi dog (from which the ridged back derives), that even though it was developed relatively recently and for use with modern firearms, the breed can still be considered to be of a «primitive type».

Vestiges of its ancient roots can still be seen with its unusually long teeth — a lingering trait of ancient breeds.

This breed has undergone relatively little manipulation by man so the modern breed is still similar to the ancient Cirneco dell» Etna.

The Norrbottenspets is an ancient breed that still thrives in Sweden.