A bear-dog hybrid weighing the equivalent of 40 bowling balls is probably not what you'd want to meet while on a skiing holiday in France. Fortunately, these fearsome carnivores became extinct ...

Science; Rare animals; How prehistoric dog the size of grizzly BEAR attacked prey 16 million years ago The enormous dog species could grow to around 1.5 metres long, and weighed as much as 300 pounds ...

Bear dogs became extinct 5 million to 10 million years ago. Diet. The bear dog's teeth were shaped to allow for an omnivorous diet, much like modern bears and modern dogs.

With jaws equipped to tear the flesh from the bones of their prey, extinct carnivores known as "bear dogs" were powerful predators that prowled Asia, southern Africa, Europe and North America more ...

The recently-discovered fauna is from a family of predators named the amphicyonidae – the bear-dog – that roamed the mountains over 12 million years ago, with several known species. To determine the ...

Prehistoric animals once roamed — and ruled — planet Earth. Some of them, ... They soon faced formidable foes like the ...

New Species Of Prehistoric European-Dwelling “Bear Dog” Named After Human-Eating Cyclops. Complete the form below to listen to the audio version of this article.

A prehistoric relative of the giant panda has been discovered in Spain, a new study says—which suggests that the charismatic Chinese bears might have originated in Europe. The 11-million-year ...