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Published 11/07/2009 by New York Times


North American Origins for the Falklands Wolf

An illustration of the Falklands wolf from The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, which was published in the late 1830s.

The Falklands wolf has puzzled evolutionary biologists since Charles Darwin first encountered it during the voyage of the Beagle in the 1830s. It was the...

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