Are bears and dogs related?

Surprisingly to some, dogs and bears are not related. Dogs are part of the “canidae” family and Canids are part of a larger group known as carnivora, whic. read more

The dog is the most diverse of all mammals in terms of body structure variants. [citation needed] Family Ursidae (bears) is the largest of all the land caniforms. read more

Surprisingly to some, dogs and bears are not related. Dogs are part of the “canidae” family and Canids are part of a larger group known as carnivora, which also has been known to include bears, cats and even seals. read more

The first one is the dog. The second one is the black bear. In fact, of all mammals, bears are the most closely related to dogs, having diverged about 38 million years ago, as the below cladogram indicates. By contrast, the domestic dog diverged from the wolf about 10–15,000 years ago. read more