• gwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 days ago

    They don’t though, their last common ancestor is a precursor to the modern wolf, but they did come from a different species (though the separation of the species is incredibly recent, biologically, only as short as 30,000 years ago)

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        8 days ago

        Honestly I kinda like this fun fact myself though

        And to be fair, the thing that’s the common ancestor we do call it a Wolf, the name is “Pleistocene Wolf”, it’s just genetically not a wolf

        Like the tree goes

        • thing that’s kinda like a wolf
          • thing that’s kinda like a dog
            • thing that’s kinda like a dog
              • thing that’s kinda like a dog
                • modern dog
          • other thing that’s kinda like a wolf
            • etc
              • etc
                • modern wolf

        And they can still interbreed, so not that far away genetically, just with (usually, occasionally not) infertile offspring

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          Honestly I kinda like this fun fact myself though

          Yeah, i actually appreciate it tbh