Scientists have discovered a nearly complete skull of a Hyaenodonta, a hypercarnivore that that lived during the Oligocene Epoch some 20 million years ago. Scientifically known as Bastetodon syrtos, ...

The team named the new genus Bastetodon partly in reference to the cat-headed ancient Egyptian goddess Bastet, in honor of where the specimen was unearthed and of the feline-like snout of the ancient ...

The name is also a nod to the short, cat-like snout and teeth of this fearsome, leopard-sized carnivore (-odon means tooth). Its skull was unearthed on Sallam Lab's expedition to the Fayum ...

Scientists found the nearly complete skull of a new 30-million-year-old ... a deadly and agile mammal the size of a modern-day leopard. Known as a Bastetodon, the animal had sharp teeth and ...

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The palaeontologists think the skull belongs to a new species of hyaenodonta ... Hyaenodonts had sharp teeth like a hyena, and were around the size of a leopard, hunting primates and early ...

The name is also a nod to the short, cat-like snout and teeth of this fearsome, leopard-sized carnivore (“-odon” means “tooth”). Its skull was unearthed on Sallam Lab’s expedition to the ...