The short, short version is that they found a partial timber wolf femur from the La Brea tar pits that was sheared off near the proximal end and healed. The healing demonstrates that the animal survived whatever violent event tore off the rest of the hindlimb. There’s no sign of a pseud...
Check out the new paper by Jerry Harris, “What exactly is a nuchal ligament and who exactly has one?” This is one of those papers that fires on lots of cylinders for me: it’s interesting, it’s useful, and holy crap, the work that went into it is humbling. Note that of the ...