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had powerful jaw and neck muscles that helped to stabilize its head and jaws during a bite. The amphicyonid was particularly adept at side-to-side movements and rotations of the head. This feature allowed
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must also have taken carrion or injured animals of various kinds, though its teeth show it was specialized as a hypercarnivore without the bone-cracking adaptations of many other bear-dogs.
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being an important food source and hipparionine horses also present in the diet. Because the site attracted all three species as a
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probably lived in a similar manner to that of modern felines, being an ambush hunter of large prey. Studies by Gemo
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511:References
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