Me, my dogs, and our long march together through evolutionary time

As my lovely wife is fond of saying, we and our beloved doggies are thrown together by fate, but I want to go much further back in time than she’s normally thinking to consider what fate had in store up to a hundred million years ago when humans and canines were one species.  Since every… Continue reading Me, my dogs, and our long march together through evolutionary time

I am a dire wolf, newly born into this world, or am I?

I am part creation of modern science, part living legend, having not walked the Earth for more than 10,000 years. I also pose an interesting biological question, one scientists have been debating for years and one which has no clear answer... I am a dire wolf, newly born into this world.  I am part creation… Continue reading I am a dire wolf, newly born into this world, or am I?