5,000-year-old wolves found on remote island rewrite what we know about domestication

Scientists have discovered five-thousand-year-old wolves on a remote Baltic island where they could only have arrived by human hands. According to ScienceDaily, evidence shows these wolves were fed and managed—possibly even selectively bred—suggesting humans started nurturing wolves thousands of years earlier than previously understood.

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