[SunkenCiv]

Wolves today live and hunt in packs, which helps them take down large prey... An international research team has reported specimens of an ancestral wolf, Canis chihliensis, from the Ice Age of north China (~1.3 million years ago), with debilitating injuries to the jaws and leg. The wolf survived these injuries long enough to heal, supporting the likelihood of food-sharing and family care in this early canine... Based on its skeleton, C. chihliensis was a large canine with strongly built jaws and teeth specialized for eating meat and cracking bone. Injuries in the skeleton provide additional evidence for how the animal used to move and behave. The study represents the first known record of dental infection in C. chihliensis, likely incurred while crushing bone to reach the marrow inside, which modern wolves do when hunting prey larger than themselves... To help interpret the injuries, the study also examined specimens of another extinct large canine: the dire wolf, Canis dirus, which has abundant fossils at the world-famous Rancho La Brea asphalt seeps in Los Angeles, California. The dire wolf was geologically younger than C. chihliensis, having lived at Rancho La Brea approximately 55,000 to 11,000 years ago. Despite the age difference, the dire wolf--which previous studies had established to have been a pursuit predator of large prey, with a social structure likely similar to grey wolves today--sustained injuries to the teeth, jaws, and legs similar to C. chihliensis.

New specimens from Ice Age of China provide clues to origin of pack-hunting in modern wolves | September 24, 2020 | PeerJ

[Red Badger]

They found ALPHA!..................

[Seruzawa]

[humblegunner]

Archaeologists on Thursday reported finding the remains of a dog

North Koreans race to the site with stew pots and onions...

[Empire_of_Liberty]

Your master has died!

Fido: Ru, Roh!

[blueunicorn6]

What is it with the Swedes?

Can’t they keep an eye on their dogs?

For crying out loud if they have to give their dog a bone, make sure it doesn’t bury it in some arka, archie, scientific digging place.

[Beowulf9]

We need a pic of the dog!

[Mastador1]

"makes you feel even closer to the people who lived here," Persson said in a statement. "A buried dog somehow shows how similar we are over the millennia when it comes to the feelings like grief and loss."

Except we wouldn't kill a dog just to bury it with someone...........so no it doesn't make me feel closer, not really.

[blam]

Beat the dog to death so that it can be buried with it’s master...because he loved it so much?