Canine Family Ties Span Millions of Years and Wolves
Science traces dogs to a 60 million year canine clan, close kin to bears foxes wolves and raccoons and second cousins to cats. Miacis emerges as the ancestral flesh eater linking modern predators, with few fossils surviving but a skeleton in museums.
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Evolution of the canine line from bear dogs to dire wolves
Prof Matthew traces dog ancestry through five geological periods noting extinct bear dogs Hyena jaws and dire wolf Canis dirus. He cites Cynodictis Daphoenus Hemicyon Hyaenarctos and Hyena bear forms, plus a Tasmanian marsupial wolf and a South African reptile with a doglike skull.
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Australia
Tasmania
South Africa
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