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 […]

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