Topic: Mammals
Workers at a Nevada research lab were checking on a primate room when they came across a ghastly sight: Thirty dead monkeys were essentially cooked alive after someone left the heater on. Two others were near death and had to be euthanized. At a lab run by the same company, a ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - From French poodles to German shepherds, domestic dogs likely trace most of their ancestry to the Middle East, as opposed to East Asian origins suggested by previous research, a genetic study reported on Wednesday. The findings, published in the online edition of the scientific journal Nature, support an archeological record that closely links the domestication of dogs ...
Husky, shar pei, terrier or mutt, today's dogs descended from wolves that probably lived in the Middle East, not Europe or Asia as many thought, according to a study published Wednesday in the British science journal Nature. "Dogs seem to share more genetic similarity with Middle Eastern grey wolves than any other wolf population worldwide," said one of its ...
