Cover image: Life reconstruction of Gansuyaena megalotis gen. et sp. nov., “the big-eared Gansu hyena”. The new genus and species of extinct hyena is known from two fossil specimens that originated in Gansu Province in northwestern China. Several autapomorphies are represented in this new taxon, including wide infraorbital foramina, hypertrophied bullae, and particularly enlarged ectotympanic. Cladistic analyses of a focused dataset emphasizing small-bodied hyaenids and using craniodental characters suggest the new fossil carnivoran is possibly the closest known taxon yet to the living aardwolf, a termite specialist found today in southern Africa. See details in the paper of Galiano et al. (Illustrated by Mick Ellison)
