Dogs may have arrived in the Americas only about 10,000 years ago, thousands of years after humans first did, researchers say. This date “is about the same time as the oldest dog burial found in the Americas,” study co-author Ripan Malhi, of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, said in a statement. The new finding suggests that dogs came to the Americas with a second wave of human migration, thousands of years after people first traveled to the Americas from Asia. “Dogs are one of the earliest organisms to have migrated with humans to every continent, and I think that says a lot about the relationship dogs have had with humans,” lead study author Kelsey Witt, a biologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, said in a statement.
Dogs Arrived Late to the Americas
