Biologists say that testing DNA samples proves that wolves that once inhabited the Falkland Islands when Charles Darwin visited them in 1835, must have gotten there from someplace else. Darwin had surmised the wolves traveled on icebergs.
“A large, wolf-size animal could perhaps live on a large iceberg with penguins and sea birds and maybe seals – enough prey to survive the voyage – where a vegetarian could not do that very well,” Wayne said.
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Tom Remington
