New Species Discovered: New Beardog

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A new species of large mammalian predator has been discovered in the Pyrenees mountains in France! Although only finding a single jaw bone, it is different enought that this can be identifide as a new species. Amphicyonids are some of the most successful groups of carnivores from the Miocene epoch and despite this there are no living reletives of the family today. And they lack the fame of some of the more well known Carnivorans so I thought I'd make a short video to talk about the new find of Tartarocyon!

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Thanks for talking about this discovery. It's unfortunate that most of the public thinks the Pleistocene is the only noteworthy epoch of the Cenozoic, and that everything that existed between the death of dinosaurs and the rise of humans were basically little more than overgrown rats that merit no attention. Amphicyonids were a fascinating group of carnivores and it's a shame they aren't referenced more in the paleo community or popular culture.

Xnaut
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The more beardogs, the merrier.

If people are unfamiliar with Amphicyonids, then Dr Polaris put up quite a good video a few weeks ago and well worth the 10 minutes of one's time. Which doesn't mean Paleo Analysis shouldn't do one as well, of course.

southron_d
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Wow. Absolutely fascinating!! The Miocene is such an under rated time in Earths history. Plus, the Bear Dogs are so cool!!

balenfalotico
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Thanks for talking about this and not Meraxes! I've had at least three videos about Meraxes from my subscribed channels over the last few days. You're the first (and so far only) person telling me we have a new Beardog too.

mortified
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Side note: "Tartaro" (or Tartalo in the Basque variant) is none other than Polyphemos, Ulysses' legendary cyclops... just that the name shifted to easier "Tartaros" (the deepest layer of Greek "hell"), probably because Polyphemos or Cyclops were hard to pronounce.

LuisAldamiz
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The Miocene is my favorite age of the Cenozoic.

It was (as of now) when mammal diversity was at its peak.
The mammalian biodiversity was a combination of archaic lineages from the early Cenozoic, and more modern lineages that would fully take over in the latter half of the Cenozoic.

beastmaster
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Wow & *congratulations* …your channel has EXPLODED dude! I stepped away from YT for a while and came back to your MASSIVE AND SUCCESSFUL channel, which is great. Your videos have always made my biologist’s heart sing with HAPPINESS. Thank you and keep up the good work.

GreatGreebo
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I like hearing your presentation style on this kind of stuff, so don't put new discoveries entirely out of your realm of content.

ethanjones
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I've been watching all your videos as I have just discobered you. I love the complete history series and the especific animal ones like smilodon. While I was watching this I notice a detail you said about the name of the Tartarocyon. It is true that comes from a gigant called Tartalo, but is not from the French mythology, it belongs to Vasque myths. One side of the basque contry (North Spain) resides inside French borders. It's nothing to be annoyed or anything, but as vasque myself, I just wanted to give this little piece of info. Thank you so much for your content, I can't wait for your next video :3

junegoirigolzarri
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Came in for the episodes and Timtim - Found gold!

Keep it up!

tuxuhds
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I agree. Too much to report all, but this period, and genus inparticular, are very exciting. Kind of a corner stone mystery of paleontology of mamals.

Gmer_Dd
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I didn't even know the discovery happened! Thanks man!

kyokyodisaster
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These sorts of discoveries are so very interesting to me, I just love these lesser known mammalian species.
Some of my favorite mammals in the fossil record are the early Artiodactyls and Perissodactyls in the Oligocene, paraceratherium being my all time favorite just for the idea of a mammal that rivals some sauropods in size. The carnivorous Artiodactyls are also fascinating and make me wonder how different today would be with them still around.

Exquailibur
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I'm totally digging your take on this discovery. I understand that you don't want to get too derailed from other projects, but I certainly value your input on this discovery and wouldn't mind hearing about more noteworthy discoveries in the future.

DrummerDaddio
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Question: When new species are discovered but only based on a single partial skeleton, how do they (or do they) differentiate them as an entire species and not a genetic mutant of a known species?

TrineDaely
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I did not realize that I'd missed a video of yours a few weeks back. Definitely loved the info, and learning about these guys!

dustindavis
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This is amazing, espically for Paleontology and I love it

I LOVE DOGS AND BEARS

kuitaranheatmorus
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Please keep creating this kind of content! It's a great source for unlimited new content for you to cover as your channel matures and you run out of 'old' topics to cover. I really like how you covered this discovery. No fluff, just a nice quick video that stuck to covering the species, where it was from, how it's name is a bit of a misnomer. Keep up the great work! I'm enjoying watching your channel grow so fast!

TheMartianReport
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Yay! Thanks for highlighting this for us! Much appreciate.

pokemon
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I think it would be great if you did videos about discoveries that get ignored. EDGE and 7DOS are great at keeping people up to date with paleontological discoveries, but neither has reported this one yet, so I think there's a gap you could fill. You could even just stick to discoveries about fauna of certain eras, to cut down on how often one of these videos might pop up.

DragonFae