Native Americans of the Pacific northwest raised woolly dogs who were sheared and their fur spun into blankets. New research on a 160-year-old pelt reveals centuries of selective breeding.
“Woolly dogs” that were kept by the Coast Salish peoples are now extinct, but researchers were able to see their importance written in the genome of the only known pelt
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