Sentences with phrase «ancient dogs»

They are believed to be ancient dogs of war and today they are very popular working dogs, often adopted by fire departments and police.

It is one of the most ancient dog breeds.

This might also be the most ancient dog breed.

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

This is ridiculous — how do the authors believe that wolves and ancient dogs eat?

They are elegant, ancient dogs dating back more than 4000 years ago.

New data from ancient dogs indicates that dogs became distinct from wolves between 20,000 and 40,000 years ago, researchers report July 18 in Nature Communications.

Genomic sequencing of ancient dogs in the Americas to understand their demographic history.

«I think it's a perfectly credible and logical case,» says Darcy Morey, a zooarchaeologist at Radford University in Virginia who has studied ancient dog burials.

Ancient dogs at the Midwestern locations also represent the oldest known burials of individual dogs in the world, said Perri, of Durham University in England.

Butchery marks previously found on ancient dog bones at other Mayan sites suggest the dogs were raised for slaughter.

Ancient dog drawings show leashes, and how Earth might be viewed as a «topological insulator» — a designation usually reserved for the quantum level

Wynne can't say for sure whether the domestication process happened at multiple villages at different times, or if it happened just once, as indicated by another recent study that looked at DNA from ancient dog fossils.

Ancient dogs used to eat killed hunts» meats, which is prone to bacteria and other parasites.

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Just like most very ancient dog breeds, the Techichi was a broad type of dog without any official standard.

People have called it the «ancient dog of Malta,» the Roman Ladies dog and the Maltese Lion Dog.

«It's an interesting time, because the technology is moving faster than our ability to ask questions of it,» Greger Larson, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Oxford who studies ancient dogs and wolves, told Nature in June.

The Afghan Hound is one of the most ancient dog breeds in existence.

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

But the ancient dogs do have other genetic variants that made it possible for the amylase gene to be copied later, Veeramah says.

But complete genomes of the ancient dogs suggest a simpler story.

But she thinks the wide range of weights of the ancient dogs argues against strictly controlled breeding.

A fossil found in Maryland was identified by a University of Pennsylvania doctoral student as belonging to a new species of ancient dog.

An absence of stone tool incisions on the three ancient dogs» skeletons indicates that they were not killed by people, but died of natural causes before being buried, Perri said.

Much of the genetic blueprint of those ancient dogs is absent in present - day canines, Dillon said.

In his 2016 study Greger Larson, a biologist at the University of Oxford, compared the genomes of modern dogs from across Eurasia with the genome of an ancient dog whose remains were unearthed at an Irish archaeological site, and estimated that Western and Eastern dog populations diverged between 6,400 and 14,000 years ago, during the Neolithic period.

«Having collected more than 1500 ancient dogs and wolves over the past few years, our lab has begun our next - generation sequencing effort.»

In addition to collecting DNA from hundreds of modern wolves as well as mutts and purebred dogs, the dual - origin researchers extracted DNA from dozens of ancient dogs, including a particularly high - value sample from a 4,800 - year - old animal unearthed in Newgrange, Ireland.

Inspired, Perri began scouring the Japanese scientific literature for reports of ancient dogs.

Both say that many more samples, especially of ancient dogs and wolves, are needed.

Researchers led by Laurent Frantz, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, sequenced this specimen's entire nuclear genome — the first complete genome from an ancient dog to be published — and compared it to the nuclear DNA of 605 modern dogs from around the world.

A consortium led by Greger Larson of the University of Oxford is now doing just that, comparing genetic and morphological data from hundreds of ancient dogs and wolves.

Zeke makes the decision to leave town in a final attempt to escape his pain, throwing his two treasured possessions - a copy of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and his dead brother's ancient dog - into his truck, and heads east.

Also known in the past as the Ancient Dog of Malta, the Maltese Lion Dog, the Melita Dog and the Roman Ladies Dog, this breed has a history of being cherished by aristocrats all over the world.

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Also known as Chow, Chowdren, Lang Gou (wolf dog) and Xiong Gou (bear dog), the Chow Chow is an ancient dog breed believed to originate from Mongolia and Northern China.

Based on a recent DNA analysis, it was determined that the Samoyed, along with two other Northern breeds - the Siberian Husky and the Alaskan Malamute, is one of the most ancient dog breeds.

Throughout the centuries, the Maltese has been known by many names including «Canis Melitaeus» which translates to the «ancient dog of Malta».

Irish wolfhounds are an ancient dogs from war dog category, which are the tallest dog in the world.

Also known as Pakistani Mastiff, the Bully Kutta is a descendant of the extinct Alaunt, an ancient dog breed that originated in present day Pakistan.

This ancient dog breed is very independent and aloof with strangers, but they tend to bond closely to their owners.

The ancient dog of Malta was once a valuable trade commodity and could be found lounging upon the laps of Roman high society.