Is it a bear? Is it a dog? No, it’s something in between…

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Animal & Wildlife

Despite being known as ‘bear dogs‘, amphicyonids are neither bears nor dogs. Instead they’re a distinct family of distantly related carnivores that, for several million years, were among the largest and deadliest mammals alive. What are bear dogs? The term ‘bear dogs’ refers to a family of extinct, terrestrial mammals known as the amphicyonids, which means […]

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