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Sunday, November 22, 2009 12:32 AM

Published 11/02/2009 by Scientific Blogging


What Happened To The Falkland Islands Wolf?

Charles Darwin described a canid on the Falkland Islands, off the east coast of Argentina, but it has long been extinct.  Darwin called it Canis antarcticus, placing it in the same genus as the domestic dog, wolf and coyote Since then, biologists have also puzzled over the Falklands wolf's ancestry, with...

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