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New research reports discovery of 5-million-year-old honey badger-like animal – Phys.org

Five million years ago, dangerous carnivores—such as giant wolverines and otters, bears, sabertooth cats, and large hyaenids—prowled the West Coast of South Africa….

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Five million years ago, dangerous carnivoressuch as giant wolverines and otters, bears, sabertooth cats, and large hyaenidsprowled the West Coast of South Africa. Today we can confirm that, among them, fearlessly roamed a smaller relative of the living honey badger.
New research published in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology by palaeontologists Alberto Valenciano Vaquero (Iziko Museums of South Africa, the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and University of Zaragoza, Spain) and Romala Govender…

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