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(zoology) Any of the family †Amphicyonidae of extinct carnivorans; a beardog..
Although now extinct, for over 30 million years amphicyonids predated their way around the Northern continents and Africa, successfully exploiting niches from more slender, wolf-like runners, to big stocky brutes that put the “bear” in “bear-dog”.
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Amphicyonid means (zoology) Any of the family †Amphicyonidae of extinct carnivorans; a beardog..
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Although now extinct, for over 30 million years amphicyonids predated their way around the Northern continents and Africa, successfully exploiting niches from more slender, wolf-like runners, to big stocky brutes that put the “bear” in “bear-dog”.
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