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The remains of a previously unknown wolf species was discovered in Granada, Spain. The ancient wolf – which has been named
Canis orcensis – was found at the site of Venta Micena in the municipality of Orce by a group of paleontologists led by Bienvenido Martínez-Navarro who is an ICREA researcher at the Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES-CERCA) and contracted professor at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV).
Venta Micena is an extremely important site for finding ancient animal species (and even prehistoric human remains) as it has one of the greatest paleontological records of large Quaternary mammals in all of Europe and even the world. “…For this reason, it has become one of the most studied localities on the continent,” Martínez-Navarro noted.