Stephanie Jackson – Australian wildlife collection / Alamy
As recently as 110 years ago, Aboriginal Australian hunters enlisted help from an unlikely source. They used dingoes, difficult-to-train canines halfway between wolves and dogs, to help trap and kill kangaroos and emus. This might provide us with new insights into how and why humans domesticated dogs thousands of years ago.
Dingoes are found across most of Australia today. Exactly when they arrived is unclear: the earliest dingo fossils are about 3300 years old, but DNA evidence suggests that …
source: newscientist.com