{"id":5570,"date":"2022-07-04T14:41:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T14:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/?p=5570"},"modified":"2022-07-04T14:41:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T14:41:15","slug":"ancient-bear-dog-fossils-named-after-basque-cyclops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/2022\/07\/04\/ancient-bear-dog-fossils-named-after-basque-cyclops\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient &#8220;bear-dog&#8221; Fossils Named After Basque Cyclops"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gerard Ezcurra sent me <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/bear-dog-pyrenees-fossil\">this cool article<\/a> about the discovery of extinct carnivore predators that inhabited the Pyrenees (as well as other parts of the world) some 7-8 million years ago. These bear-dogs are not related to neither bears nor dogs, but have characteristics of both. Fossils discovered in the Pyrenees point to maybe a new genus of the species, which the researchers named <em>Tartarocyon<\/em>, after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buber.net\/Basque\/Folklore\/EHL\/ehl.tartaro.php\">Tartalo<\/a>, a monstrous cyclops-like being from Basque folklore. Pretty cool!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"936\" height=\"527\" src=\"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/izW3RbTuGPUhuG2WcKJZu3-1024-80.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/izW3RbTuGPUhuG2WcKJZu3-1024-80.jpg 936w, https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/izW3RbTuGPUhuG2WcKJZu3-1024-80-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/izW3RbTuGPUhuG2WcKJZu3-1024-80-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 936px) 100vw, 936px\" \/><figcaption>The Tartarocyon bear-dogs, Artwork by Denny Navarra and found on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/bear-dog-pyrenees-fossil\">LiveScience.com<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerard Ezcurra sent me this cool article about the discovery of extinct carnivore predators that inhabited the Pyrenees (as well as other parts of the world) some 7-8 million years ago. These bear-dogs are not related to neither bears nor dogs, but have characteristics of both. Fossils discovered in the Pyrenees point to maybe a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1260],"tags":[3366,3220,3365,3364],"class_list":["post-5570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-misc","tag-bear-dog","tag-pyrenees","tag-tartalo","tag-tartarocyon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/izW3RbTuGPUhuG2WcKJZu3-1024-80.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2sYNu-1rQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5573,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570\/revisions\/5573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}