Tag: omnivorous
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Paleontologists find omnivorous ancestor of the giant panda, revealing it was not always just a bamboo eater
Phys.org has a nice summary of a new paper in the journal Papers in Palaeontology and Geobios, which sheds light on the ancestry of the giant panda. The fossils were found at the Hammerschmiede clay pit, a fossil site in southern Germany that dates to about 11.5 million years ago. Fossil teeth of Kretzoiarctos beatrix, which is…