A 9,400-year-old dog skeleton has been found in Texas.

A 9,400-year-old dog skeleton has been found in Texas.

Researchers say they found a bone fragment from the earliest confirmed domesticated dog in the Americas.

University of Maine graduate student Samuel Belknap III found the fragment while analyzing a dried-out piece of waste unearthed in Southern Texas back in the 1970’s.

A DNA analysis confirmed the bone came from a dog and carbon-dating placed the age around 9,400 years.

The bone fragment was found deep inside a pile of human excrement and has a characteristic orange-brown color that would mean it passed through the digestive tract.

"It just so happens this person who lived 9,400 years ago was eating dog," Belknap said.

Dogs may have been bred for comfort, security and food back then, researchers said.

The earliest dogs in North America are believed to have come with the early settlers across the Bering land bridge from Asia to the Americas 10,000 years ago or earlier, researchers say.

There may be older dogs in America, but the bone fragment is one of the few confirmed, Belknap said.

Will sex in space be a problem? Can Humans Get Conceive In Red Planet ?

Experts have suggested National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to embrace the topic of sex in the space.

A single topic among experts has created a discussion: If we send colonists to the red planet, will sex in space be a problem? According to them, there haven't been any studies on whether a child be conceived in zero-G or how sex would even work in space. NASA hasn't said much about the subject and is curious about the questions like- Have any astronauts done it already? 

And do we know if children could be conceived and survive in space? Report says. Rhawn Joseph, Writing in the newly released book "The Human Mission to Mars: Colonizing the Red Planet" considers the sexual possibilities of space travel. He also says, "There's a definite possibility that it could happen." He even suggests the possibility that male and female travelers to Mars should fly in separate spacecraft.

Experts are curious to know about this subject matter but NASA may not go much further than that.

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