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The oldest dog in the world was a puppy that lived 16,000 years ago in Turkey and ate fish
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What a weird way to phrase it.
I mean, if it was old, why call it a puppy?
Do they mean the oldest bones found but the dog was actually young?
Why use the word "was?" Is it dead? I thought the point was that it was 16,000 years old.