Scientists Tested 302 Australian Dingoes — And Their Skulls Told a Completely Different Story

Scientists Tested 302 Australian Dingoes — And Their Skulls Told a Completely Different Story 📖 THE WILD TRUTH ALMANAC: https://www.gideonmarsh.com For most of my life a dingo was a dingo, the same golden wild dog from the tropics to the snowy mountains, and some experts even split them into three types, tropical, desert and alpine. Then a University of Sydney researcher laid out 302 dingo skulls from museum drawers across the country and mapped every one of them point by point, and they did not fall into three groups, they fell into two. The north and west have long slim greyhound faces, and the south east have broad heavy faces that sit closer to a pet dog than to their own cousins. Everybody assumed that dog like face meant dog blood, and I would have bet on it myself, but the hybrid skulls in a 2016 study came out looking like pure dingo, and an ancient skull from Lake Mungo over three thousand years old sits with the broad faced southeast. The part that genuinely bothers me is what is happening now, because in the places where poison baiting is used the dingoes have grown six to nine percent bigger in eighty years, so we are reshaping an animal without even meaning to. What gets me most is that so many of those skulls came from dingoes that were shot and poisoned as pests, and in the end they were the ones who told the truth about what they really were.