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A Dingo's Grave Displays Hundreds of Years of Reverence (opens in new tab)

The Aboriginal people of Australia love their dogs as much as anyone, and a dingo's grave in Kinchega National Park in New South Wales shows that one dog was particularly revered more than 900 years ago. The grave was accidentally unearthed around the turn of the 21st century during road construction. This dingo was buried by the ancestors of the Barkindji people with the same care they would bury a human. But that's not all- they came back generation after generation to leave river mussels a...

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