Genome-scale data and the development of novel statistical phylogenetic approaches have
greatly aided the reconstruction of a broad sketch of the tree of life and resolved many of its …

The remarkable radiation of South American (SA) canids produced 10 extant species
distributed across diverse habitats, including disparate forms such as the short-legged …

The many high-resolution tools that are uniquely applicable to specimens from the
Quaternary period (the past~ 2.5 Ma) provide an opportunity to cross-validate data and test …

Ancestral Coast Salish societies in the Pacific Northwest kept long-haired “woolly dogs” that
were bred and cared for over millennia. However, the dog wool–weaving tradition declined …

Southeastern Canada is inhabited by an amalgam of hybridizing wolf-like canids, raising
fundamental questions regarding their taxonomy, origins, and timing of hybridization events …

The renowned site of Dmanisi in Georgia, southern Caucasus (ca. 1.8 Ma) yielded the
earliest direct evidence of hominin presence out of Africa. In this paper, we report on the first …

Colonization of a new environment may trigger an evolutionary radiation, defined as an
accelerated accumulation of species in a short period of time. However, how often …

Unlike their medium-sized relatives of the genus Canis, whose arrival is dated around 3 Ma,
the appearance in western Europe of large-sized hypercarnivorous canids took place at the …

Simple Summary Recent years have seen major advances in the analysis of carnivore
modifications to bone during feeding, based on the integration of 3D modeling and data …

Abstract In 2017, a hemimandible (MW5-B208), corresponding to the Ethiopian wolf (Canis
simensis), was found in a stratigraphically-controlled and radio-isotopically-dated sequence …