At least five types of dog existed by the end of the Ice Age, 11,000 years ago

CNN ^ | October 30, 2020 | Amy Woodyatt,

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There were 26 spiecies of gulls before the Ice Age. They were labeled by letter - A gull, B gull, C gull, etc.

Only three survived: the C gull, the E gull, and one that evolved into a land animal, the B gull.

Took you a while, didn’t it.

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"These are Indian dogs, no?"

Yes....believed to have come to the Americas with the first humans.

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