A fossilized lower jaw has led an international team of paleontologists, headed by Bastien Mennecart from the Natural History Museum Basel, to discover a new species of predator that once lived in Europe. These large predators belong to a group of carnivores colloquially known as “bear dogs.” They could weigh around 320 kilograms and appeared 36 million years ago before becoming extinct around 7.5 million years ago.
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Source: Phys.org