Many of those fossils will end up on exhibit inside the ... fossilized footprints of the “bear-dog” carnivore known as Amphicyon. It was excavated in Barstow in 1964 by the museum’s namesake ...

The bear dog, also called Amphicyon, shared features of bears (heavy-bodied, with feet planted flat on the ground) and dogs (relatively long legs and long snout), but they are neither bears ...

(It was this approached which generated my first book – Written in Stone: Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature – which is due to hit shelves on November 1st.) I usually don ...