[Theoria]

Here is a image of the article if ya don't wanna go to the NYT.

[Theoria]

Pretty amazing.

'Nonetheless, the team returned to the necropolis for the first controlled tests in September 2015, and again a full year later. Both times, they used all four of Ms. Pintar and Mr. Nikolić’s cadaver dogs: Panda, Mali, a third Belgian Malinois and a German shepherd. They worked them on both known and double-blind searches, in areas where nobody knew if tombs were located.

The dogs located four tombs new to the archaeologists. Dr. Glavaš had suspected that a fifth site might hold a burial chest, and the dogs’ alerts, combined with excavation, proved her suspicion correct.'

[Fresh Wind]

Ping

[Jeff Chandler]

Panda, a Belgian Malinois

My esteem for that breed goes up and up.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

And still, it would seem, "the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground" (Genesis 4:10).

[Beowulf9]

THANK you! I did not want to ‘log in’ with the NYT but the article is interesting. I wonder what they will find with dogs now? Amazing.

[redfreedom]

My comment is somewhat off topic, but my understanding is that the olfactory part of the skull has much to do with the ability to smell.

Now I fully agree that our canine friends can smell many times better than a human, as this story illustrates.

What’s off topic is my going to T-Rex. The loons trying to recreate their behavior state they had a great sense of smell simply because the olfactory was so large. If that’s the case, then a dog’s should be the size of a basketball. My contention is T-Rex’s was so large simply because it was so prehistoric and in early stages of evolution where it was large for reasons other than a great sense of smell.

[Carriage Hill]

“The two dogs, trained to detect human remains, were searching for scents that were thousands of years old.”

Just amazing.

[Varda]

Malinois are great dogs but don't get one unless you're an active person. Active means daily runner, hiker, dog sports or have an active job for them

[bunkerhill7]

Hot Dang! I’m a gonna train my blue tick to sniff out them buried gold coins & diamonds! Yup!

[Tallguy]

** Bodies had lain in beehive-shape tombs on this necropolis, part of the prehistoric hill fort of Drvišica, since the Iron Age. The two dogs, trained to detect human remains, were searching for scents that were thousands of years old. **

Which is it? Prehistoric or Iron Age? I understant that the fort could go back much further but attaching that adjective fuzzes up the whole description.

[a fool in paradise]

What WON’T dogs do to find a bone