Mary Rose dog was a he, not a she

The smallest member of the Mary Rose crew – the ship’s dog – was a he, and not a she as was previously believed, experts say. The skeleton of the dog lacked a baculum, or penis bone, and so was thought for many years to be that of a female dog. The dog, named "Hatch" by researchers, was discovered in 1981 during the underwater excavation of the ship, which sank defending Portsmouth from a French invasion in 1545. However recent developments in DNA analysis have found that Hatch was a young male dog, most closely related to modern Jack Russell terriers, with a brown coat.