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posted by martyb on Wednesday October 12 2016, @04:52PM   Printer-friendly
from the they-also-died-there dept.

Fossil remains in the The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois have been re-examined with new tech, and found to be 'bear-dogs'.

Bear dogs, scientifically known as amphicyonids, get their common name from their general resemblance to modern-day bears and dogs, especially in their body shape and posture, but they are, in fact, only distantly related to these lineages.

The specimens had been collected some decades earlier in Texas, but new 3D scanning made an identification possible.

Earlier analyses of these fossils only considered their external features, and the remains were so fragmentary that paleontologists could only say the creatures were carnivores of some sort. But Tomiya and Tseng’s new study used x-rays to generate detailed 3D scans of the fossils’ internal features. Those scans revealed a distinct pattern of blood vessel channels in the base of the skull that identified the creatures as amphicyonids, making them among the oldest known members of the lineage,

Entire article available at http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/10/bear-dogs-once-lived-southern-texas

The search for the elusive Man-Bear-Pig still continues.


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  • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday October 12 2016, @08:55PM

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Wednesday October 12 2016, @08:55PM (#413636) Journal

    They also got bear Jews in Boston.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 13 2016, @02:09AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 13 2016, @02:09AM (#413735)

    Soll ein Golem sein!

  • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Thursday October 13 2016, @11:51AM

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Thursday October 13 2016, @11:51AM (#413844) Journal

    Flamebait? I guess the modder doesn't watch any decent TV or films and lacks a sense of humor.