For the science loves. Scientist doing Genetic analysis by the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Washington has found golden jackals of Africa (left) and Eurasia (right) are two distantly related species. The scientific name for the golden jackal is Canis aureus. The researchers proposed renaming those in Africa Canis anthus, or the African golden wolf.
The researchers determined that the African golden jackal lineage split from the lineage including gray wolves and coyotes about 1.3 million years ago while the Eurasian golden jackal lineage split about 600,000 years earlier.
Source: Mailonline
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