What Happened To The Falkland Islands Wolf?
Monday, November 2, 2009 - 12:56
in Paleontology & Archaeology
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 suggestions that they were related to domestic dogs, North American coyotes, or South American foxes. The wolves were the size of a coyote, but much stockier, with fur the color of a red fox. They had short muzzles, just like gray wolves, and thick, wooly fur. read more
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