Bear Dog

Bear Dogs are not closely related to the bear family nor the dog family, being members of the suborder Caniformia and fitting into their own family, Amphicyonidae. As their names suggest, they looked like hybrids between bears and dogs. There were once many different species in the family of bear-dogs, but then they began to die out. The most recent fossils we have from the New World date to about two million years ago, and in the old world, the most recent are about ten thousand years old. There is some evidence that the bear-dogs might have survived much longer than this in some remote areas. One species might even be alive today if you can believe certain legends and sightings that have come from some remote, icy valleys on the border between Canada and Alaska.

California cryptid