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| Tango01 | 20 Jun 2019 4:04 p.m. PST |
"A pair of fossilized teeth confirms the presence of hyenas north of the Arctic circle during the last Ice Age. The discovery fills an important fossil gap that finally explains how hyenas ended up in North America. A pair of isolated hyena teeth found in the Old Crow Basin of Canada's Yukon Territory shows that hyenas occupied the Arctic during the last Ice Age, according to new research published in the science journal Open Quaternary. Paleontologist Zhijie Jack Tseng from the University at Buffalo identified the teeth, which were kept at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, as belonging to the Chasmaporthetes genus, also known as the "running hyenas" on account of their generally longer legs compared to other hyenas…"
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