A team of researchers at the University of Sydney found dingoes and kelpies do not share DNA, despite their visual similarities.
The Kelpie, a herding dog derived from the Scottish collie, was brought to Australia in the late 1800s, while the dingo is a native Australian species which arrived in Australia 4000 years ago.
Dog genetics expert Professor Claire Wade says while the kelpie and dingo both have the “up version of the ears, when you look closely at the DNA you can see it is quite different.”