320-year-old mystery solved thanks to ancient DNA

Tuesday, March 5, 2013 - 11:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

University of Adelaide researchers have found the answer to one of natural history's most intriguing puzzles – the origins of the now extinct Falkland Islands wolf and how it came to be the only land-based mammal on the isolated islands – 460km from the nearest land, Argentina.

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