A domesticated dog with powerful wolf jaws has been unearthed at a Stone Age dig in Sweden

• The 8,400-year-old remains of a dog that lived alongside humans have been found buried in Sweden.
• The Stone Age dog was discovered in Sölvesborg, Blekinge County about 350 miles south of the capital, Stockholm.
• The dog is currently being kept at the Blekinge Museum but it has not yet been decided where it will be exhibited.

A vanished breed of domesticated dog has been unearthed at a dig of a Stone Age culture in Scandinavia.

The Stone Age dog was discovered by archaeologists in Sölvesborg, Blekinge County about 350 miles south of the capital, Stockholm.

Ola Magnell, a Zooarchaeologist at National Historical Museums, Sweden, told Insider: "Since these dog burials are rare and the bones are very fragile I spent three days carefully exposing the skeleton." Magnell added: "A few bones were found in a pit and I could see that it was several bones from one animal. First, I could identify a carpal bone from the front paw and later the mandible was exposed so I could confirm that this was definitely a complete dog."

He said that while the dog's breed no longer exists, it could be compared to " a Spitz, a dog like a Siberian husky, but with jaws powerful as a wolf."

The dog is currently being kept at the Blekinge Museum but it has not yet been decided where it will be exhibited.

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It was found in the Ljungaviken neighborhood of Sölvesborg which would have been a coastal area until rising sea levels covered it with gyttja and preserved it for years, the Daily Mail reported.

The remains of a dog that lived alongside humans, believed to between 14,000 and 20,000 years old, were discovered in Italy, earlier this year.