From unknown to beardog: Findings rescue fossils from ‘trashbin’ genus
Wednesday, October 12, 2016 - 08:01
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Large, ferocious-looking animals called beardogs — neither bears nor dogs — roamed the Northern Hemisphere between about 40 and 5 million years ago. But because so little data on their earliest members are available, their evolutionary relationships or phylogeny — and their place on the tree of life — have remained unclear. A new study […]