Meaning of bone-crushing dog | Babel Free

Definitions

Any of a subfamily (Borophaginae) of large extinct canids of North America, noted for powerful teeth and jaws.

Examples

“Carnivore damage and age distribution of the bones of the rhinoceros Teleoceras suggest that the bone-crushing dog Osteoborus, or a related carnivore, significantly influenced the accumulation of some of the vertebrate fossils.”

“He also saw many bone splinters which appeared to have been worked by humans. (We now know that they were fractured by an extinct family of bone-crushing dogs)”

“Bone-crushing dogs, which are only distantly related to living wolves and coyotes, possessed heavy skulls and jaws and large, broad teeth.”

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