[Horatio Gates]

Prehistoric Bear-doggie ping?

[b4its2late]

We're not alone.

[martin_fierro]

"They look something like a large pit bull," Stewart told the San Francisco Chronicle. "They're very tough customers."

PING

[b4its2late]

Can't leave you out of this.... :-)

[martin_fierro]

Like, Hella Old Stuff, Dude PING

[HankReardon]

DANG! I bet horses are going to be 50 ft tall in a million years!

[goldstategop]

Nah. More a giant badger. If you look at living badgers, they're ornery critters. You don't want to cross paths with one. I wouldn't think about crossing a path with this pre-historic beast and don't ever have to.

(Denny Crane: "There are two places to find the truth. First God and then Fox News.")

[Viking2002]

Sounds like they found the ancestors of my two dogs. If you saw them, you'd get the joke - one I call 'Weasel' and 'Short Leggs' and the other I call 'Pigg' and 'Pooh Bear'. And they're both from the same litter! LOL :-)

[SWAMPSNIPER]

They found this near Berkley? Maybe it's a prototypical MoonBat!

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[Rakkasan1]

[LibertarianInExile]

You know, I'm all for fossil research and I love reading about this stuff, but I loathe when scientists and the press puff up finds that can't possibly indicate everything they claim with any certainty.

"...his team found a jaw bone and an inch-long fang from what they estimate was a 200-pound creature. 'They look something like a large pit bull,' Stewart told the San Francisco Chronicle. 'They're very tough customers.'"

I cannot buy that with a jawbone and a tooth alone you can in any way shape or form predict that a creature "looks something like a large pit bull" or is a "very tough customer" without engaging in a lot of far-too-speculative hypothesizing. Science can't be well served by the use of extremely hypothetical comments like this from very small pieces of data.

[cripplecreek]

Oft confused with the bare dog.

[RightWhale]

It just blew me out of my mind

It takes a while to totally inhabit a language. Some never do.

[msnimje]

I have always thought bears and dogs look alike.

[537cant be wrong]

hey wait a minute.
isn't this one of those threads that get attacked by freepers for already being posted earlier?
i could have sworn that susan estrich was already being talked about.

[frithguild]

monstrous predator that looks like a cross between a bear and a pit bull ... an entirely new genus within the same family as otters, skunks and weasels.

Missing link to the modern slip and fall lawyer?

[Rudder]

Among the discoveries was the skull of an animal that appears to be an entirely new genus within the same family as...skunks and weasels.

For those in Rio Linda, that's the John F. Kerry family tree.

[1FASTGLOCK45]

The more and more i heard about these interesting discoveries, i can see why people back in the days wrote stories of wild animals like dracula and the trolls/elves and stuff like that. Stories of creatures from different lands as people began to travel, and we know how stories become exhaggerated, and also people weren't educated and connected like we are now.

[RaceBannon]

More evolutionary fairy tales?