What inferences can we make by looking at these two specimins?

[Sherlock Holmes]

For example, what might their nearest common ancestor look like? might their DNA be similar? if we found these only as fossils, what might we infer?

 

[alang1216]

For example, what might their nearest common ancestor look like? might their DNA be similar? if we found these only as fossils, what might we infer?

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Not an anatomist but I'll play:

• carnivore
• swift
• mammalian (probably)

The nearest common ancestor likely looked very similar.

 

[sealybobo]

For example, what might their nearest common ancestor look like? might their DNA be similar? if we found these only as fossils, what might we infer?

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Dog

 

[Muhammed]

For example, what might their nearest common ancestor look like? might their DNA be similar? if we found these only as fossils, what might we infer?

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They look like wolves to me. Or maybe the one on the right is a wolf and the one on the left is a domesticated dog.