| The Carolina Dog was discovered
and named by Dr. I. Lehr Brisbin, a biology professor at the
University of Georgia, at the United States Department of Energy's
Savannah River Site in South Carolina. This is a remote area
from which the public have been excluded, and wild dogs that
have lived there for centuries have had little opportunity to
breed with domestic dogs. Brisbin noted that these dogs were
almost identical in looks to the Dingo. Other scientists observed
that the Carolina's bone structure was very similar to the remains
of Neolithic dog bones from Native American burial sites thousands
of years old. |