Bear dog prehistoric

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Borophagines were prehistoric bone-crushing dogs: Archaeocyon leptodus (extinct 20 Mya) was one of the earliest and smallest dogs, and Epicyon haydeni (extinct 6 Mya) was the largest carnivorous dog—about the size of a grizzly bear. (Mauricio Antón)

Amphicyonids were a family of carnivores that lived in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa for about 45 million years. They were part of a group of mammals called “Caniformia”, which includes animals such as seals, raccoons, weasels, skunks, otters, bears and dogs. The similarities of Amphicyonids and these last two are what gave them the colloquial name of “bear-dogs”.

Peligrotherium tropicalis, a genus of meridiolestidan mammal from Paleocene Patagonia. It was about the size of a small dog.

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Bear-Dog *Amphicyon Haydeni*

Between 23 and 16 million years ago, just outside of where the city of Lisbon, Portugal sits today, there lived a unique mix of mammals which would have seemed both strange and familiar. From bones and footprints left in fossilized feces, paleontologists have found that rhinoceros, deer, horses, antelope, and elephants browsed and grazed in […]

the dog-bear Hemicyon sansaniensis