I think the title is wrong anyway, as it should have said “the oldest found dog” because there’s a high possibility there were older dogs that we haven’t found. We don’t have undeniable proof this one is the real oldest one. It’s also a transition from wolf, so when was the turning point from wolf to dog? Or did they bred one in a lab 16000 years ago and said: “We finally did it! We created the first dog!”
I think the title is a bad edit of “the oldest domestic dog was a puppy…”
Aren’t dogs a domesticated species, putting the domestication on the prerequisite side?
and thier genome is different from the wolf too.
I think the title is wrong anyway, as it should have said “the oldest found dog” because there’s a high possibility there were older dogs that we haven’t found. We don’t have undeniable proof this one is the real oldest one. It’s also a transition from wolf, so when was the turning point from wolf to dog? Or did they bred one in a lab 16000 years ago and said: “We finally did it! We created the first dog!”