Carly Ameen

TL;DR: The analysis indicates that American dogs were not derived from North American wolves but likely originated from a Siberian ancestor, and form a monophyletic lineage that likely originated in Siberia and dispersed into the Americas alongside people.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that photogrammetry can produce 3D models with visually satisfying levels of morphological detail in terms of texture, colouration and geometry, affording advantages that make it a highly useful tool for zooarchaeological research.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors sequenced five genomes from sub-fossil remains dating from 13,000 to more than 50,000 years ago and found that although they were similar morphologically to the extant grey wolf, dire wolves were a highly divergent lineage that split from living canids around 5.7 million years ago.

TL;DR: It is revealed that Inuit dogs derive from a secondary pre-contact migration of dogs distinct from Palaeo-Inuit dogs, and probably aided the Inuit expansion across the North American Arctic beginning around 1000 BP.

TL;DR: The higher frequency of crowding in both modern and ancient wolves strongly suggests that current assumptions linking tooth crowding with the process of early domestication (at least in dogs) should be critically re-evaluated, and that further investigations into the drivers behind these developmental patterns should be pursued.