Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 131,772
Likes: 20
Campfire Sage
OP
Campfire Sage
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 131,772
Likes: 20
The Epicyon (epic dog) lived till the late miocene.
Not a wolf, but a dog, like the
Lycaon pictus , African Wild Dog of today, is a dog rather than a wolf.
I guess that's a Dingo it's illustrated next to.
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 2,010
Campfire Regular
Campfire Regular
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 2,010
Cool. If it lived today, it would be the undisputed KING of the hood rat's dogs...
Joined: Nov 2015
Posts: 19,213
Campfire Ranger
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Nov 2015
Posts: 19,213
Cool. If it lived today, it would be the undisputed KING of the hood rat's dogs...
Pit bulls would go the way of the afro.......obsolete.
Joined: Jun 2012
Posts: 10,068
Campfire Outfitter
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Jun 2012
Posts: 10,068
You're going to need a bigger shovel....
Mercy ceases to be a virtue when it enables further injustice. -Brent Weeks ~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 131,772
Likes: 20
Campfire Sage
OP
Campfire Sage
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 131,772
Likes: 20
Cool. If it lived today, it would be the undisputed KING of the hood rat's dogs...
LOL. True. Of course, like the African Wild Dog, it would not be possible for these dogs to interbreed with domesticated dogs, which descend from Canis Lupus. The Epicyon didn't descend from Canis Lupus, which existed along side it, but was a sufficiently distant species of canidae as not to permit interbreeding.
Joined: Jan 2012
Posts: 67,168
Likes: 36
Campfire Kahuna
Campfire Kahuna
Joined: Jan 2012
Posts: 67,168
Likes: 36
I haven't seen me dingo since me dingo bit me dingo
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 131,772
Likes: 20
Campfire Sage
OP
Campfire Sage
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 131,772
Likes: 20
Epicyon skeleton:
vs domesticated dog skeleton, below:
Joined: Mar 2018
Posts: 184
Campfire Member
Campfire Member
Joined: Mar 2018
Posts: 184
That’s one larger Dog, but since it doesn’t exist anymore. I guess a superior breed must have wiped them.
Joined: May 2001
Posts: 18,345
Likes: 1
Campfire Ranger
Campfire Ranger
Joined: May 2001
Posts: 18,345
Likes: 1
"The epicyon ate my baby"
Carpe' Scrotum
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 56,319
Likes: 9
Campfire Kahuna
Campfire Kahuna
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 56,319
Likes: 9
That’s one larger Dog, but since it doesn’t exist anymore. I guess a superior breed must have wiped them.
Pit bulls?
_______________________________________________________ An 8 dollar driveway boy living in a T-111 shack LOL
Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 1,640
Campfire Regular
Campfire Regular
Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 1,640
Just recently saw a vid. on this giant dog..
Explains why they died out..
https://youtu.be/sZhxCUay5ks
It's a great life if you don't weaken..
Joined: Sep 2010
Posts: 31,428
Campfire 'Bwana
Campfire 'Bwana
Joined: Sep 2010
Posts: 31,428
"The epicyon ate my baby"
Good one!
"I can't be canceled, because, I don't give a fuuck!" --- Kid Rock 2022 Holocaust Deniers, the ultimate perverted dipchits: Bristoe, TheRealHawkeye, stophel, Ghostinthemachine, anyone else?
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 131,772
Likes: 20
Campfire Sage
OP
Campfire Sage
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 131,772
Likes: 20
That’s one larger Dog, but since it doesn’t exist anymore. I guess a superior breed must have wiped them.
Yep, or the game which he specialized in hunting disappeared, or his environment changed in a major way, too quickly for adaptation to occur.
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 131,772
Likes: 20
Campfire Sage
OP
Campfire Sage
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 131,772
Likes: 20
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 131,772
Likes: 20
Campfire Sage
OP
Campfire Sage
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 131,772
Likes: 20
That’s one larger Dog, but since it doesn’t exist anymore. I guess a superior breed must have wiped them.
This video is helpful along these lines.
VIDEO
Joined: Feb 2004
Posts: 17,121
Likes: 2
Campfire Ranger
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Feb 2004
Posts: 17,121
Likes: 2
Paleontology is a philosophy of science; not a hard science in the sense that’s its theories are observable or ever have been, repeatable by experimentation, or in that it’s subjects will ever occur again. You’d be better served by keeping you dogmatic (yes, partial pun) Paleontological ramblings at the level of speculation rather than as professorial pronouncements.
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 131,772
Likes: 20
Campfire Sage
OP
Campfire Sage
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 131,772
Likes: 20
You don't understand the definition of science if you think the field of paleontology isn't a scientific field.
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 96,121
Likes: 1
Campfire Oracle
Campfire Oracle
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 96,121
Likes: 1
You don't understand the definition of science if you think the field of paleontology isn't a scientific field.
He doesn't understand much outside of being a sanctimonious azzhole
"Dear Lord, save me from Your followers"
Joined: Mar 2018
Posts: 1,326
Campfire Regular
Campfire Regular
Joined: Mar 2018
Posts: 1,326
Some breeds are pretty darn close right now:
Joined: Feb 2004
Posts: 17,121
Likes: 2
Campfire Ranger
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Feb 2004
Posts: 17,121
Likes: 2
You don't understand the definition of science if you think the field of paleontology isn't a scientific field.
Would you say it’s on the same level as Na + H20 in the lab? Paleontology is the study of bits ‘n pieces and occasionally “wholes” from which great inferences are drawn. Maybe some are correct.
Paleoanthropology is even worse.
553 members (1minute , 1234 , 1badf350 , 007FJ , 06hunter59 , 10Glocks , 58 invisible),
2,472
guests, and
1,249
robots.
Key:
Admin ,
Global Mod ,
Mod
Forums81
Topics1,192,560
Posts18,491,767
Members73,972
Most Online11,491Jul 7th, 2023