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Were Paleolithic dogs domesticated?

Evidence has been found that dogs lived with humans as early as 31,700 years ago. That is a full 14,000 years earlier than previously thought. Whenever domestication began, dogs and man have an extremely long history together. Dogs are considered the first domesticated animal.
The domestication of dogs in the Paleolithic age was originally for mutual benefits. Men were hunter-gatherers. Dogs would have been useful to assist man in tracking and hunting. It is thought that they might have also been used to help dragging kills back to the caves where they were eaten. Dogs were fed in return. There has been evidence that there was more than just mutual benefit involved. The three dog skull fossils found near Belgium show a relationship between the dogs and man existed.

The dog skulls found show some interesting evidence of domesticity:

* The skulls had been pierced after their death. This was a sort of “religious” practice of the time to “release the soul” of the animal. The soul was thought to have been in the brain.
* The one dog had a large bone in its mouth placed there after death, showing it was being provided for in the after-life. Humans obviously fed them meat from kills, and cared what happened to the dog.
* The dogs were buried –not an action that would take place, unless the animal meant something emotionally.

The skulls were not wolf skulls, they had shorter snouts and wider skulls than wolves. From reconstructing the evidence, these dogs were about 24 inches high, weighed about 77 pounds and might have looked similar to the Siberian Husky. The remains of the dogs indicated they were between 4 and 8 years old at the time of their death. Much later archeological finds unearthed a puppy buried with a human – clear evidence of an emotional bond between man and dog.

The three dog fossils are the earliest evidence of the domestication of Paleolithic dogs. Evidence found 14 000 years later reveals dogs of many sizes and shapes all associated closely with man.

List of Extinct North American Animals

North American Animals we will never see alive again.

This list shows the most recent animals to have become extinct in all of North American.
Most notably, the Eastern Cougar has joined the list of extinct animals as recent as 2011.
Two main reasons animals become extinct are deforestation and pollution.

Mammals:
Antillean Cave Rat
Insular Cave Rat
Corozal Rat
*Eastern Cougar
Puerto Rican Shrew
Puerto Rican Long-nosed Bat
Puerto Rican Long-tongued Bat
Lesser Puerto Rican Ground Sloth
Sherman’s Pocket Gopher
Goff’s Pocket Gopher
Tacoma Pocket Gopher
Giant Deer Mouse
Pallid Beach Mouse
Gull Island Vole
Louisiana Vole
Puerto Rican Paca
Lesser Puerto Rican Agouti
Greater Puerto Rican Agouti
Sea Mink Mustela
Caribbean Monk Seal
Steller’s Sea Cow
Columbia Basin Pygmy Rabbit
Arizona Wapiti
Colorado Hog-nosed Skunk
Smith Island Cottontail
Allen’s Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel
Banks Island Wolf
Cascade Mountains Wolf
Antillean Giant Rice Rat
Eastern Elk
Merriam’s Elk
Arizona Jaguar
Tule Shrew

Birds:
Labrador Duck
Heath Hen
Spectacled Cormorant
Atitlán Grebe
Bermuda Night Heron
Virgin Islands Screech-Owl
Mauge’s Parakeet
Carolina Parakeet
Passenger Pigeon
Guadalupe Caracara
Bahaman Barn Owl
Brace’s Emerald
Gould’s Emerald
Great Auk
Grand Cayman Thrush
Dusky Seaside Sparrow
Guadeloupe Burrowing Owl
Guadeloupe Parakeet
Guadeloupe Parrot
Lesser Antillean Macaw
Cuban Red Macaw
Martinique House Wren
Martinique Parrot
Slender-billed Grackle
Possibly Extinct:
Guadalupe Storm-Petrel
Bachman’s Warbler
Eskimo Curlew
Imperial Woodpecker
Semper’s Warbler

Reptiles:
Navassa Curly-tailed Lizard
Navassa Iguana
Navassa Island Dwarf Boa
Sulcate Blind Snake
Saint Croix Racer
Martinique Giant Ameiva
Martinique Lizard
Ameiva cineracea
Possibly Extinct:
Culebra Island Giant Anole

Amphibians:
Vegas Valley Leopard Frog
Catahoula Salamander
Golden Toad Costa Rica
Possibly Extinct:
Golden Coqui
Mottled Coquí
Web-Footed Coquí

Fish:
Longjaw Cisco
Deepwater Cisco
Lake Ontario Kiyi
Blackfin Cisco
Yellowfin Cutthroat Trout
Alvord Cutthroat Trout
Silver Trout
Maravillas Red Shiner
Independence Valley Tui Chub
Thicktail Chub
Pahranagat Spinedace
Phantom Shiner
Las Vegas Dace
Grass Valley Speckled Dace
Clear Lake Splittail
Snake River Sucker
Harelip Sucker
Tecopa Pupfish
Shoshone Pupfish
Raycraft Ranch Killifish
Pahrump Ranch Killifish
Ash Meadows Killifish
Amistad Gambusia
San Marcos Gambusia
Blue Walleye
Maryland darter
Utah Lake Sculpin
Banff Longnose Dace
Possibly Extinct:
Shortnose Cisco

Crustaceans:
Illinois Cave Amphipod
Pasadena Freshwater Shrimp

Insects:
Pecatonica River Mayfly
Robert’s Stonefly
Fort Ross Weevil
Mono Lake Diving Beetle
Xerces Blue
Chestnut Ermine Moth
American Chestnut Moth
Phleophaga Chestnut Moth
Central Valley Grasshopper
Rocky Mountain Locust
Antioch Dunes Shieldback Katydid

Mollusks:
Coosa Elktoe
Carolina Elktoe
Ochlockonee Arcmussel
Recovery Pearly Mussel
Arc-form Pearly Mussel
Acorn Pearly Mussel
Lewis Pearly Mussel
Nearby Pearly Mussel
Sampson’s Pearly Mussel
Steward’s Pearly Mussel
Turgid-blossom Pearly Mussel
Shoal Sprite
Cahaba Pebblesnail
Umbilicate Pebblesnail
Mount Matafao Different Snail
Short-Spired Elimia
Closed Elimia
Fusiform Elimia
High-spired Elimia
Constricted Elimia
Hearty Elimia
Ribbed Elimia
Rough-Lined Elimia
Pupa Elimia
Pygmy Elimia
Cobble Elimia
Puzzle Elimia
Excised Slitshell
Striate Slitshell
Pagoda Slitshell
Ribbed Slitshell
Pyramid Slitshell
Round Slitshell
Lined Pocketbook
Eelgrass Limpet

If you are regular funnyanimalsvideo.org website member then you probably already see some of this animals, but let watch them again.

Extinct & soon to be extinct animal/species, very sad video.

Some of the extinct animals.

Do you believe in this? Animals coming back to life?

Some animals got extinct like 20 years ago and today they are discovered again. Nature way is weird way.

Many animals will be extinct in next 100 or even less years. Here are some of them that are short on number

Basilosaurus is an extinct whale. It was huge and very scary.

Please comment and say NO to animal extinction. At least we can remember them and admire them.