A wolf ancestor very similar to that mighty beast spawned all the dogs we know today, including this fella:
According to Greger Larson, an expert in the evolutionary history of dog domestication at the University of Oxford, there's a lot we don't know about the process.
When it comes to altering the traits of a domestic animals, Larson says there are four main areas that are fairly easy to modify from a genetic standpoint:
Such manipulations could theoretically be applied to many other animals. In a world devoid of reason and logic, here are some innovative possibilities BuzzFeed Science came up with:
