It's NOT the first Fido, but a new pair of papers shows humans across Europe were paling around with Some Very Good Dogs more than 14,000 years ago, pushing a domestication even back another 5,000 years.

TY to @wwrfd.bsky.social for keeping my puns.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/dog-domestication-genetics-bones-europe

Humans have been hanging out with dogs for even longer than we thought

Two new papers have shown that dogs were fully distinct from wolves—and companions with people—more than 14,000 years ago.

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