Dingos can also be of potential benefit to the environment, as they will also hunt Australia’s many introduced/invasive species. As Australia's largest extant terrestrial predators, dingoes prey on mammals up to the size of the large red kangaroo, in addition to wombats, wallabies, and most other marsupials birds, lizards, fish, crabs, crayfish, eels, snakes, frogs, insects, snails, fallen fruits and seeds.
The dingo's habitat covers most of Australia, but they are absent in the southeast and Tasmania, and an area in the southwest (see map). Dingo morphology has not changed over the past 3,500 years: this suggests that no artificial selection has been applied over this period. However, genomic analysis indicates that the dingo reached Australia 8,300 years ago but the human population which brought them remains unknown. The earliest known dingo fossil, found in Western Australia, dates to 3,450 years ago. The dingo is closely related to the New Guinea singing dog: their lineage split early from the lineage that led to today's domestic dogs, and can be traced back through the Maritime Southeast Asia to Asia. The skull is wedge-shaped and appears large in proportion to the body. The dingo's three main coat colourations are light ginger or tan, black and tan, or creamy white. The dingo is a medium-sized canine that possesses a lean, hardy body adapted for speed, agility, and stamina.
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It is variously considered a form of domestic dog not warranting recognition as a subspecies, a subspecies of dog or wolf, or a full species in its own right. Its taxonomic classification is debated as indicated by the variety of scientific names presently applied in different publications.
The dingo ( Canis familiaris, Canis familiaris dingo, Canis dingo, or Canis lupus dingo ) is an ancient ( basal) lineage of dog found in Australia. Dingo on the beach at Fraser Island, Queensland
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