Raccoon Dog Fossil (IMAGE)

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Raccoon Dog Fossil

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California Academy of Sciences curator Zeray Alemseged and his colleagues described this new (extinct) species of raccoon dog (Nyctereutes lockwoodi) from the fossil record in Ethiopia. Academy scientsts described 93 other new species in 2009.

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