From what animal did the dog descend?
We know Bowser as the faithful friend of the human family. But his recent ancestors were wolf-like animals of the wild. His family tree, however, goes much farther back to animals that resemble the dog only slightly. We would not recognize these ancestors of our faithful Bowser. Scientists have tried to trace back the family tree of the dog with the help of fossils long buried in the ground. Many of these old dog bones have been found and assembled to give an idea of what their owners were like. But experts are not sure that all of these somewhat dog like animals of the past actually were ancestors of our dogs. There is a vast assortment of dogs large and small in the modern dog clan. There also seems to have been a vast assortment of very different animals in the family tree of the dog world. The earliest known dog ancestor could have been an animal that roamed our land some million years ago. Scientists have assembled his fossilized bones and named him Miacis. He was a small and slen
