Meaning of amphicyonid | Babel Free

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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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