Re: early dog

On 1/27/25 20:46, erik simpson wrote:

On 1/27/25 2:25 AM, x wrote:

On 12/17/24 11:06, erik simpson wrote:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-54425-5
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The earliest dog relative found so for; a gorgonopsian ~270 Mya.

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Isn't the word 'relative' unclear?
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Kind of like 'kind', 'species', or 'hybrid'?
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I am thinking that wolves, coyotes, and jackals can
all cross and produce viable offspring, but foxes
can not?
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Then there is some of the South American canids
that are closer than foxes but more distant than
say wolves from coyotes and jackals?
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What kind of kind is 'kind'?
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In this context, I was talking about a pretty silly time-travel TV serial of some time back.  I mentioned it once in a episode that featured a gorgonopsian coming to the present through some sort of time portal.  Some on else mentioned that one of the characters in the serialhad a pet therapsid.  Therapsidae is a clade of paleozoic "mammals", containing among other things gorgonopsians which were the apex predators of the time.  "Mammals" isn't a good fit for any of these animals, as they were remove from true mammals by hundreds of millions of years.  Synapsid is a better term.  I don't recall which of the many therapsids was the pet.  For that matter we and all living mammals are also therapsids.

Stragely enough, I near midnight just a few days ago looked up
'George Herbert Walker' (1875-1953) on Wikipedia to try to make
sense of some names a few years back,
Then I noticed, 'Herbert George' is 'George Herbert' with the
two names reversed.
With that you might get 'H G Wells' the author of 'The Time
Machine', 'The Sleeper Awakes', and 'The Man who could Work Miracles'. I am thinking you can still see that 1937 movie on Youtube.