What is a dingo?
Q: What is a dingo?
A: A dingo is a type of dog found in Australia and South-East Asia.
Q: Where are dingoes not found?
A: Dingoes are not found in Tasmania, as the sea levels cut the island off from mainland Australia about 10,000 years ago.
Q: When was the earliest known dingo fossil found, and where?
A: The earliest known dingo fossil was found in Western Australia, dating to 3,450 years ago.
Q: When did the dingo reach Australia, and who brought them?
A: The genes show that dingoes reached Australia 8,300 years ago, but the humans who brought them are unknown.
Q: Has artificial selection been done on dingoes over the past 3,500 years?
A: No, the morphology of dingoes has not changed over the past 3,500 years, suggesting that artificial selection has not been done over this period.
Q: What is the scientific name for dingoes and what is the recent change to it?
A: The scientific name for dingoes is Canis lupus dingo, and it recently changed from Canis familiaris dingo, to show that it is related to the white-footed wolf living in Asia.
Q: What part of Asia are dingoes related to?
A: Dingoes are related to the white-footed wolf which lives in Asia.
