Jun 22, 2022
Huge “dog-bears” populated the Pyrenees 12 million years ago
Huge “dog-bears” populated the Pyrenees 12 million years ago
A fossilized mandible unearthed in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques in France belongs to a species of amphicyonid unknown to date, say paleontologists associated with the Museum of Natural History in Basel, Switzerland. Better known as bear dogs, Amphicyonidae are an extinct family of large carnivorous mammals. These animals, closely related to canids, inhabited much of the Northern Hemisphere. Appeared…
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