When we mention the origin of cats and dogs, many people say that cats are born of tigers, while dogs are born of wolves, because in their appearance they do have many similarities, but is that true? Research suggests that the ancient cat that appeared on Earth 50 million years ago may be the true ancestor of cats and dogs.
Mysterious cat.
When 65 million years ago, an asteroid hit the Earth, leading to the fifth biocide, turning dinosaurs into historical mammals that had been suppressed by dinosaurs, it ushered in an evolutionary spring.
What's an old cat look like? Through the fossils collected, paleontologists recovered them, and it looks like a mink, with a big tail, very soft body and limbs.
As a predatory small-scale mammal, the pagodas live mainly in trees, first in tropical rainforests, and then began to evolve in the direction of cats and dogs, respectively, some 40 million years ago.
The study concluded that since 40 million years ago, the cat had evolved into a large number of species, including the immediate ancestors of cats and dogs, and that, for example, there was an ancient creature called "thorium" on Earth, which was considered to be the transition from the cat to the dog, because the cat seemed to have many similarities with the dog.
So, what kind of evolution did cats and dogs experience until they became human indistinguishable pets, from birth to being domesticated by humans? On this issue, researchers believe that they may have been “self-dampling”.
Cats and dogs actually use humans?
Fossil studies have found that cats and dogs are truly “friends” to humans, starting about 10,000 years ago, when humans entered the age of new stones.
At that time, primitive farming also emerged, human life began to stabilize and primitive animal husbandry began to develop. At this point, humans began to become self-sufficient and attracted some animals.
Of course, the process has also been very long, and researchers have found that the evolution of cats and dogs began to slow from about 4,000 years ago, when human beings began to enter civilization and the social fabric of human beings became more stable.
Over the years, many ancient biologists and geneticists have also been building “evolutionary trees” for cats and dogs, hoping that a complete history of evolution can be drawn from the ancient cats to them, but unfortunately, as a result of geological movements, many fossils are incomplete and many critical fossils are not yet present and can only hope for the future.