An ancient dog fossil helps trace humans’ path into the Americas
A roughly 10,000-year-old bone found in southern Alaska is among the Americas’ oldest dog fossils
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Flavio Augusto da Silva Coelho of the University at Buffalo in New York holds a roughly 10,000-year-old dog bone fragment that was found in southeast Alaska. It’s one of the oldest dog fossils ever found in North America.
Douglas Levere/Univ. at Buffalo