9 Most AMAZING Prehistoric Dogs!

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Hi, it’s Katrina! Dogs have been our best friend for a long time! But where did they come from? How did this bond start? From giant bear dogs to the earliest remains of domesticated puppies, here are 9 examples of what dogs were like in the past!


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9. Bear Dogs
Amphicyon, better known as the “bear dog,” first appeared in Eurasia between 55 million and 23 million years ago. At this time the Earth was much warmer and chock-full of thick vegetation.

8. Dire Wolf
The dire wolf (Canis dirus) existed in the Americas during the last Ice Age, and is one of the most famous prehistoric carnivores! Between 125,000 and 10,000 years ago, early humans would have been able to hear their howls all over the place.

7. The Gray Wolf Myth
Scientists have long considered domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) to be direct descendants of gray wolves, but this thought process has been called into question several times in recent years. While it’s true that dogs obviously must descend from at least one wild ancestor, their connection to wolves may be less direct or be m0re confusing than we previously thought.

6. Bonn-Oberkassel Dog
In 1914 in Oberkassel, a suburb of Bonn, Germany, workers discovered a grave containing the remains of a man, woman, and dog dating back to around 14,000 years ago, during the Paleolithic era. While all signs pointed toward the dog being a family pet, researchers could only speculate about this until relatively recently.

5. Dogor
Officially speaking, the Bonn-Oberkassel dog constitutes the world’s oldest-known domesticated dog remains. Competition for this title came along during the summer of 2018, however, with the discovery of Dogor, a puppy who sat frozen in the Siberian permafrost for around 18,000 years.

4. The Koster Dogs
Modern dogs are unrelated to the first known domesticated dogs in the Americas and their relatives -- which, according to 19th-century explorers, greatly resembled wolves, and howled instead of barked.

3. European Dogs In North America
A 2018 study helped further unravel the confusing evolutionary history of dogs in North America when it found that the European canines who were brought to the continent during the 16th century likely replaced the ancient dogs that were already there.

2. America’s First Dogs
Understanding how ancient American dogs were wiped off the face of the planet doesn’t help to explain where they came from in the first place, but researchers looked to the same place to solve both mysteries: their genetics.

1. Inuit Dogs
As if the dog’s evolutionary history in North America wasn’t confusing enough, there’s more. The Canadian Eskimo dog and the Greenland dog, which are genetically identical, represent a breed of working dog used by Inuits, and which is currently threatened with extinction, with the estimated remaining purebred population numbering 300 or less.

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Hey guys, would you like to own a majestic prehistoric dog like these? Or maybe a prehistoric big cat? 🐕🐈

OriginsExplained
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maybe some ancient human found and adopted some orphan puppies and thats where it all began

hliashlias
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Everyone:giving other dog names


Me and Hades: Cerberus show them who's boss

alanwalkerandmarshmellofan
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I have a 100% Siberian Husky. It is almost cruel to keep these guys as domestic dogs. They aren't. They rightfully shouldn't be contained. Mine has a prey drive that is overwhelming causing her to wander. She isn't even a year old and has brought home countless lizards, a crow, Mourning Dove, cottontail and 2 jack rabbits! To watch her clear our 5 ft fence is nothing short of breathtaking! Even though we live out of town on 2 1/2 acres we're in town and the dog police have warned me. If you go to the pound there are several of these beautiful dogs because people think just that...oh how pretty! With no knowledge of how hard a breed they are.

sylviayoung
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Whoa, bear-dogs were definitely not lap dogs! Imagine loading him up to go to the vet!?

Mountain.Man.
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I love this channel so much 🥺 I literally have been constantly binging ever since I discovered you! Keep up the great work!! ❤️

zillakitty
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Gone now, but I had a 100% Alaskan Malamute female, Chena, 115 pounds. And a male that 25% each Wolf, Alaskan Malamute, German Shepherd, and Collie, 125 pounds. Both were cuddle bugs, very sweet, loved snow and hated water. Neither barked, they vocalized. He was incredibly smart, had a huge vocabulary, loved kids, and was very concerned. If we went for a walk in the woods off-leash he would run ahead to make sure it was safe, run to the back, make sure everyone was together, then out in front again, over and over.

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As soon as their cubs developed the ability to know what we thought of as cute, our bond was inevitable!

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I have heard theories that many of the precontact dogs genetically swamped back in with coyotes and wolves explaining why some wolves are black and why coyotes have so many unique colors and the coydog with traces of wolf and dog found in them. Also recent studies have shown that the Honshu wolf are closely related to Shiba Inus.

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- YAYY I LOVE ALL YOUR VIDEOS! Thanks for being fantastic!

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Dogs came from an extinct species called the Paleolithic dog it was around 11, 000 to 40, 000 years ago it had 5 ancient lines of descendants from there is where they devolved/evolved into the domesticated dogs we have today.

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The amphicyon ingens (bear dog) and the dire wolf, they are my favorite prehistoric dogs. They were certainly to be feared

willardstark
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Since I'm mad over dogs this video increases my knowledge hugely thanks a ton

raheem
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The Oberkassel couple and dog story is very touching.

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The best videos to learn from! 😍💜 I have learnt a lot over the years! 😜💙 Very inspirational that that even inspired me to start making my own videos! 😎❤️ Stay safe and enjoy the rest of your quarantine!

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Showing LOVE for Origins Explained. Love this channel

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Many coastal PNW tribes kept and bred a very long haired Wooley dog. They didn't bark, only howled. They were protectors and support. The hair was used for clothes and many more. Our petroglyphs also have these dogs depicted and dated back to about 8000 years. Closest genetic link was the malamute. There is one more dog that is trying to be saved with fully functional 6 toes from Norway. To climb rocks on rough terrain and also distribute weight better in snow. Like a snow shoes.

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My beautiful boy Cuchulain
was a gentle, polar-white giant:
1/2 Great Pyrenees.
1/4 White Shepherd.
1/4 Wolf.
Long-legged and rangy wolf-build, built on a massive barrel-chested Pyrenees frame.
One hundred-sixty pounds of glory.
Best dog ever.

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I don't understand one thing they said ;-;
But my doggo seemed like he understood since he like jumped up next to me and started watching the video with me a while after I started watching it XD

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4:04 the Clovis tool style is an evolution of the earlier Solutrean style which from the spread of the haplogtoup x and the Solutrean sites seems to be eminating outward from the modern day Azores.

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