Migaloo is the World’s First “Archaeology Dog”

Posted by NG Kids in News Bites on December 12, 2012
Migaloo, a black lab, with trainer Gary Jackson

You may know that some dogs like to bury bones, but did you know that they can also be trained to find bones? Gary Jackson, an Australian dog trainer with Multinational K9 has trained Migaloo, a black lab, to find bones! Now Migaloo helps archaeologist search for bones that are hundreds of years old.

Migaloo locates the bones, but she is not allowed to dig them up–that’s up to the human archaeologists!

Learn more about Migaloo on National Geographic News.

What other jobs can dogs do? Find out on National Geographic Kids.

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Categories: Archaeology

Comments

  1. chinni008
    December 14, 2012, 10:02 am

    wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!! helpful! ,well for archaeologists

  2. savethebigcats
    December 17, 2012, 5:17 pm

    Cool! Next stop, train hamsters to parachute! LOL

  3. pielover
    December 29, 2012, 12:43 pm

    Very short but interesting

  4. owls39
    December 31, 2012, 12:09 pm

    CCCOOOOOOLLL!!!!!!!!! i wish baily could do that!

  5. lioncub
    January 11, 3:37 am

    Amazing! Has she found any dinosaur bones yet?

  6. flipflop02
    January 12, 7:23 am

    that is one cool dog the owner must be really lucky

  7. jaynye
    January 29, 9:15 pm

    My dog is to hyper to do that stuff

  8. melany2115
    March 8, 9:38 am

    nice that dog is importat and especial that dog is a very very very special dog am godbye i have a dog to is so important for me he has 8 years old but I LOVE MY LITTLE DOG.

  9. pablo2115
    March 8, 9:46 am

    that some dogs help the persome

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