# fossilfriday

It has a full head-to-butt mane because that seems to be a feature of most Hyaenids from looking at aardwolves, brown hyenas and striped hyenas.

Timelapse!

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2023-01-30

I've made a general observation that, when it comes to large prey, felids are "cleaner", arguably more efficient killers. Canids and hyaenids, on the other hand, are more brutal killers. This piece by Sergei Merjeevski illustrates that point well.

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2023-01-27

Eomakhaira molossus - a new taxon which clarifies the origin of the Thylacosmilus and demonstrates its relation to Proborhyaenids.
https://t.co/8BLMkWCcYw

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2021-10-24

Earliest were different from modern, huge bone-crackers like Crocuta. Protictitherium, from the Miocene of Batallones, was no larger than a jackal and had a varied diet including carrion. From fossils to sketches to full reconstruction

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2019-10-04