• gwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        6 hours 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)

          • gwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            4 hours 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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              4 hours ago

              Honestly I kinda like this fun fact myself though

              Yeah, i actually appreciate it tbh