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Secrets of Coast Salish woolly dogs, raised by Native Americans and sheared like sheep, revealed long after European colonisation led to their demise

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.

Lost Woolly Dog Genetics Highlight Indigenous Science

“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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