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Archaeologists Rediscover 30-Million-Year-Old Dog Fossil Hiding in a Museum Collection

The near-complete skeleton belongs to Mesocyon coryphaeus, an extinct canid that was stockier and more flexible than modern dogs.

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Dogs have been our closest companions for several millennia now, but they’ve been around for a lot longer. Millions of years longer, in fact. As reported by the University of Michigan, researchers recently took another look at a 30-million-year-old fossil from Oregon and realized they were dealing with one of the most complete early dog skeletons ever discovered.

The fossil was originally dug up back in the late 1980s. Like many archaeological finds,........

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