Moment Bronx man, 33, falls 15ft through sidewalk 'sinkhole' and is 'swarmed by so many rats he couldn't yell for help for fear they would crawl in his mouth'

Daily Mail ^ | 27 Oct 2020 | Mathew Wright

[DUMBGRUNT]

Leonard Shoulders, 33, had been waiting on a bus at 3rd Avenue across from Saint Barnabas Hospital on Saturday when the sidewalk caved in Surveillance footage shows him falling into the dark hole Shoulders was unable to get out of the hole for more than 30 minutes He refused to scream because there were rats in the pit, worried they would crawl into his mouth

Surveillance footage shows the moment that Shoulders falls into the sidewalk, trying to hold on and ultimately plummet 12 to 15ft.

'The Full Vacate Order is still in effect, and a construction fence has been erected around the building in the interest of public safety.'

[Red Badger]

All dogs are wolves. Their DNA is identical........................

[Tennessee Conservative]

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[Salamander]

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27577-ancient-dna-suggests-dogs-split-from-wolves-40000-years-ago/

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Dogs Not as Close Kin to Wolves as Thought
The relationship between dogs and wolves is far more complex than previously imagined.
By Jen ViegasPublished on 1/16/2014 at 5:00 PM
A widely held belief is that dogs evolved from gray wolves, but a new study finds that the common ancestor of dogs and wolves went extinct thousands of years ago.

What’s more, the extensive DNA analysis — published in the latest PLoS Genetics — found that dogs are more closely related to each other than to wolves, regardless of their geographic origin. The genetic overlap seen today between dogs and wolves is likely then due to interbreeding after dog domestication.

“The common ancestor of dogs and wolves was a large, wolf-like animal that lived between 9,000 and 34,000 years ago,” Robert Wayne, co-senior author of the study, told Discovery News. “Based on DNA evidence, it lived in Europe.”

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I still refer to mine as house wolves, anyway.

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