Archaeologists originally uncovered the near-complete D. avus skeleton buried alongside a human at Cañada Seca, a site in northern Patagonia, in 1991.
Parts of the D. avus specimen were buried alongside a human at Cañada Seca, a site in northern Patagonia.
D. avus lived from the Pleistocene Epoch (around 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago) into the Holocene, becoming extinct about 500 years ago.
With a similar diet to D. avus, dogs may have helped speed the foxes’ extinction by outcompeting them.
Dogs could also have carried and transmitted diseases that sickened the foxes, Lebrasseur added.
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