carnivoran

While some biologists noted a vague superficial similarity with lemurs, most concluded that it was a viverrid: a member of the same carnivoran family as civets and genets*.

That’s no mystery carnivore (part I) Darren Naish 2007

While some biologists noted a vague superficial similarity with lemurs, most concluded that it was a viverrid: a member of the same carnivoran family as civets and genets*.

Archive 2007-01-01 Darren Naish 2007

As explained in my article, detailed comparison indicates that the animal is not a carnivoran, but a squirrel.

That’s no mystery carnivore (part II)… it’s a giant squirrel! Darren Naish 2007

Notably, those carnivoran species that have become human commensals are all generalized omnivores smaller than most wolves: raccoons Procyon lotor, Red foxes Vulpes vulpes, Golden jackals Canis aureus and coyotes C. latrans.

Archive 2006-10-01 Darren Naish 2006

But they didn't seem to have been chewed up and still had intact legs, feet and heads, so they likely weren't killed by a carnivoran.

What killed the stag beetles? Darren Naish 2006

They name this clade Pegasoferae, a name derived by uniting Pegasus (in their view a sort of bat-perissodactyl combination) with Ferae (the name they use for the carnivoran + pangolin clade).

Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006

Response directed at Mike: the 'fossa' I was referring to is not the osteological concavity that you are thinking of, but the Madagascan euplerid carnivoran Cryptoprocta ferox.

Giant hoatzins of doom Darren Naish 2006

They name this clade Pegasoferae, a name derived by uniting Pegasus (in their view a sort of bat-perissodactyl combination) with Ferae (the name they use for the carnivoran + pangolin clade).

We flightless primates Darren Naish 2006

Notably, those carnivoran species that have become human commensals are all generalized omnivores smaller than most wolves: raccoons Procyon lotor, Red foxes Vulpes vulpes, Golden jackals Canis aureus and coyotes C. latrans.

Controversial origins of the domestic dog Darren Naish 2006

If domestic dogs are wolves, you would expect the two to be very close genetically, certainly closer than universally recognised non-domesticated carnivoran taxa.

Controversial origins of the domestic dog Darren Naish 2006