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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.

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.

You're going to need a bigger shovel....

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.

I haven't seen me dingo since me dingo bit me dingo

Epicyon skeleton:



vs domesticated dog skeleton, below:

That’s one larger Dog, but since it doesn’t exist anymore. I guess a superior breed must have wiped them.

"The epicyon ate my baby"

Pit bulls?

Just recently saw a vid. on this giant dog..
Explains why they died out..

https://youtu.be/sZhxCUay5ks

Good one!

Yep, or the game which he specialized in hunting disappeared, or his environment changed in a major way, too quickly for adaptation to occur.

Great vid. Thanks.

This video is helpful along these lines.

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.

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

Some breeds are pretty darn close right now:

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.