Long before coyotes and millions of years before wolves, bone-crushing dogs padded across North America. The prehistoric canids came in an array of sizes, from small nippers comparable to foxes to ...

Epicyon haydeni, or Hayden's bone-crushing dog, roamed North America between 12 and 6 million years ago during the middle to late Miocene epoch. Its fossils have been discovered in at least 12 ...

JT: Our discovery and analysis of the coprolites are important for making accurate reconstructions of the ecological roles played by the bone-cracking canids of North America. Those top dogs looked ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Far bigger than any dog that walks the earth today, Epicyon ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This tooth is from a Borophagus, a ...

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Jack Tseng, assistant professor of pathology and anatomical sciences, was senior author on a recent study led by Xiaoming Wang of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County that examined the ...

Dire wolves, brought back into the spotlight through recent cloning efforts, are often portrayed as the greatest of prehistoric canines. Yet, even the largest dire wolf would pale in comparison to ...