New Species of Bear Dog Is Identified From Fossil Stored for Decades in a Museum in Spain; Understand

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A new species of bear dog, a group of extinct carnivorous mammals that shared characteristics with dogs and bears, was described by researchers from the reanalysis of a fossil discovered more than three decades ago in Spain. The animal, baptized by Paludocyon moyasolai, lived about 16 million years ago in a region of lakes and marsh areas that occupied part of the current Catalonia, during the Miocene. The discovery was published in the scientif…