A jaw bone fossil could hold the key in identifying an ancient 'bear-dog' species. Find out more below.
It's rare to discover fossils from the mid-Miocene era around the Pyrenees mountain range in southern France. But paleontologists believe they may have discoveredThe recently-discovered fauna is from a family of predators named the amphicyonidaeTo determine the new species, Bastien Mennecart, a paleontologist from the Natural History Museum Basel and his international team have come together.
Jean-François Lesport and Antoine Heitz from the Natural History Museum Basel and Floréal Solé, a specialist in carnivorous mammals named the new specimenThis is also a well-known legend throughout the province of Béarn, where the jaw bone was unearthed from a 12.8 to 12 million-year-old marine deposit.
Not only is this a discovery of a new species, but researchers can also use this jaw bone to further study the way the climate was shifting during the mid-Miocene and the way prehistoric animals made their way across the landscape.
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