Curated category
Scavengers
- PigArchaeological evidence places the first domestication of pigs in the Near East around the Tigris Basin more than 11,400 years ago.
- Great white sharkThe great white shark first unambiguously appears in the fossil record about 5.3 million years ago at the beginning of the Pliocene epoch.
- WolfIn 1758, the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus published Systema Naturae and listed the wolf as Canis lupus. He classified the domestic dog as a separate…
- Brown bearCarl Linnaeus scientifically described the species under the name Ursus arctos in the 1758 edition of Systema Naturae. Brown bear taxonomy and subspecies…