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Pleistocene carnivorans

  • WolfIn 1758, the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus published Systema Naturae and listed the wolf as Canis lupus. He classified the domestic dog as a separate…
  • CougarThe word cougar comes from the Portuguese term çuçuarana, which itself traces back to the Tupi language of Brazil. In 1648, Willem Piso published a rendering…
  • Dire wolfIn mid-1854, a geologist named Joseph Granville Norwood found a fossilized jawbone in the bed of the Ohio River near Evansville, Indiana.