Tuesday 5 March 2013

Ancient DNA solves 320-year-old mystery: Origins of now extinct Falkland Islands wolf

Researchers have found the answer to one of natural history's most intriguing puzzles -- the origins of the now extinct Falkland Islands wolf and how it came to be the only land-based mammal on the isolated islands -- 460 kilometers from the nearest land, Argentina.



via ScienceDaily: Anthropology News http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130305130447.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Ffossils_ruins%2Fanthropology+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Fossils+%26+Ruins+News+--+Anthropology%29

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