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A new study has found that there is no coat colour that helps distinguish a dingo from a wild dog, or dingo-dog hybrids. The study published in the Journal of Zoology, found that only 53 per cent of dingoes have a ginger coat colour. With around 11 per cent being black and tan and 14 percent brindle. It was previously believed that purebred dingoes were ginger in colour and that any other colour variation indicated that the dingoes were a domestic dog hybrid. Dr Kylie Cairns, co-author of the study said dingoes are much more variable than we think and that seeing an animal with an odd coat ...

You may have missed… Food sometimes sticks to a heated surface, even if oil or a nonstick frying pan is used. Scientists have investigated the fluid properties of oil on a flat surface and their work shows convection may be to blame. Left: dry spot on nonstick Granitec pan; right: dry spot on Teflon-coated pan. Credit: Alex Fedorchenko Sticky explanation Most of us have had the experience of the food we’re cooking sticking to a non-stick frying pan, even if we’ve used oil to slick things up. What’s with that? Apparently keen cooks, scientists at the Czech Academy of Sciences have inve...