Photo by Jay Preston, University of Maine
AAA Member Samuel Belknap III, a University of Maine graduate student, has discovered evidence of the oldest identifiable domestic dog in the Americas.
“I didn’t start out looking for the oldest dog in the New World,” Belknap said. “It just goes to show that sometimes, great scientific discoveries come not when we are looking for specific answers but when we are thorough in our examination of the evidence and open to what data it provides.”
Read more on the discovery here.
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