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Scientists discover that dogs became man's best friends much earlier than thought

2026-03-25 20:26:03Lifestyle SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Scientists discover that dogs became man's best friends much earlier than

Dogs are considered man's best friends because of their unconditional loyalty, ability to create strong emotional bonds, and willingness to stay by man's side in every moment, happy or difficult.

According to the BBC, a discovery of a dog's jawbone has been found deep underground in Gough's Cave in Somerset, UK, which has rewritten the story of when dogs became friends with humans.

DNA analysis shows that the jaw belonged to one of the earliest known domesticated dogs and that humans lived near them in Britain 15,000 years ago, thousands of years before farm animals were domesticated or cats became pets. The discovery pushes back the time when the first dogs evolved from their wolf ancestors by about 5,000 years.

"This shows that by 15,000 years ago dogs and humans already had a very close relationship and this little jaw, which seems like such a small thing, has helped to shed light on the whole human history of how this relationship began ," confirmed Dr. William Marsh of the Natural History Museum.

Scientists discover that dogs became man's best friends much earlier than

The first dogs were descendants of gray wolves that roamed human camps at the end of the Ice Age, scavenging for scraps of food and slowly becoming more domesticated. Over time, humans began to use these animals to help with hunting, guarding, and tracking, transforming them into working partners rather than wild predators. After hundreds of generations of human breeding, the dogs that emerged had shorter faces, smaller teeth, and a wide range of sizes.

Marsh made the discovery by chance during his doctoral project. The bone had been hidden in a museum drawer for decades, thought to be an insignificant specimen. Marsh performed a genetic analysis of the jawbone and, to his surprise and delight, discovered that it was indeed from a dog, making it the first clear evidence that dogs existed thousands of years earlier than previously confirmed.

But this new research is the first to use detailed DNA testing to show that the animal from Gough's Cave was indeed a dog and that it was part of a very early dog ​​population that had already spread across much of Western Europe and Asia.


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