Some were the size of a dog. Others were as large as polar bears. A newly-discovered fossil of the ferocious hyaenodont is helping scientists understand a little bit more about the mysterious ...
His excited shout brought the team together, marking the beginning of an extraordinary discovery: a nearly complete skull of an ancient apex carnivore, a dream for any vertebrate paleontologist.” ...
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30-Million-Year-Old Carnivore Skull Discovered in Egypt—And It’s Unlike Anything Seen BeforeHis excited shout brought the team together, marking the beginning of an extraordinary discovery: a nearly complete skull of an ancient apex carnivore, a dream for any vertebrate paleontologist.” ...
the researchers were able to compare findings from those remains with the Bastetodon skull and demonstrate that both carnivores belonged to the same group of hyaenodonts that originated in Africa.
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 ...
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