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This week, my focus is on those nonmedical products that caught my attention as a pet lover and that will make taking care of your pet easier or more fun. Just as with the veterinarian breakthroughs, this week’s products were gleaned from suggestions from more than 100 experts.
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Fossils date dogs back 31,000 years
- The dog’s oldest relative, the Paleolithic dog, lived 31,000 years ago and resembled a large Siberian husky. The animals dined on large meals of reindeer, horse and musk ox. As noted in a paper accepted for publication by the Journal of Archaeological Science, scientists behind the find say the fossil evidence—found in a cave in Belgium—pushes the date of the earliest-known ancestor of the modern dog back nearly 18,000 years further than previously thought.
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