About 30 million years ago, parts of Egypt were covered in lush forests. Within those trees, lurked an order of fearsome big ...

A rare, nearly complete skull unearthed in the Egyptian desert has led to the identification of a new species of apex ...

Hidden beneath Egypt’s desert sands, scientists uncovered a nearly complete skull of Bastetodon, a 30-million-year-old ...

A leopard-sized “fearsome” predator that hunted early elephants 30 million years ago has been identified following the ...

Scientists in Egypt discovered a not-before-known apex predator that lived 30 million years ago, potentially helping to solve ...

Some were the size of a dog. Others were as large as polar bears. A newly-discovered fossil of the ferocious hyaenodont is ...

Scientists have discovered a nearly complete skull of Bastetodon syrtos, a fierce prehistoric carnivore, in Egypt’s Fayum ...

The team named the new genus Bastetodon partly in reference to the cat-headed ancient Egyptian goddess Bastet, in honor of ...

The species, known as Bastetodon and named for an Egyptian goddess, had sharp teeth and an incredibly powerful grip ...

Meet the Bastetodon: a new species of a "ferocious" ancient predator recently discoverd in 30 million-year-old rock.

Bastetodon was classified as a species of the extinct group of carnivorous mammals called hyenodonts, which evolved long ...