Huge news for dog lovers 🐶⁠ ⁠ New research suggests dogs may have been living alongside humans around 15,000 years ago – roughly 5,000 years earlier than previously thought. The discovery comes after scientists analysed a fragment of jawbone found in a UK cave, indicating early domesticated dogs were already part of human life much sooner than believed.⁠ ⁠ Experts say the finding adds to growing evidence that the bond between humans and dogs goes back far deeper in history, potentially reshaping what we know about how that relationship first began.⁠ ⁠ 💬 "It shows that by 15,000 years ago dogs and humans already had an incredibly tight, close relationship - and this tiny jawbone, which seems like such a small thing, has helped to unlock the whole human story of how that partnership began"⁠ ⁠ #science #archeology #ladbible