Chasmaporthetes
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Chasmaporthetes was a hyena which hunted prey at high speed, rather like a modern cheetah. It was the only hyaenid genus which crossed the Bering Strait into North America, during the Pliocene era.
Chasmaporthetes became extinct during the Pleistocene as a result of the Ice Ages.
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