Dingo and Dog Kind Discovery

Evolutionary scientists have never agreed on where the dingo belongs on the canid family tree, but a new study claims that dingoes are genetically “somewhere between a wolf and a modern domestic dog.” By sequencing the genome of a dingo pup and comparing it to the DNA of modern domestic dogs, the researchers identified the pup’s DNA as an intermediary between wolves and domestic dog breeds. The researchers claim that this discovery “gives us much clearer insight into how the dingo evolved.”

Creation scientists would agree that dingoes are uniquely positioned between wild and domesticated canids. Dingoes were brought to Australia by people thousands of years ago. However, Australia was so little populated that the domestication process halted, leaving dingoes an intermediate species of canine that spread throughout Australia and adapted to the wilds.

Speciation is not the same thing as evolution. Dogs are still dogs, all part of the same created kind—including dingoes.

This article is from Answers magazine, October–December, 2022, p. 18.