A nearly complete skull of the creature was found in the Egyptian desert. Its lineage indicates that it was a top carnivore ...

Discover Bastetodon syrtos, a newly identified apex predator from ancient Egypt. Learn about its fossil discovery, ...

What has the body of a dog, the face of a cat and jaws powerful enough to potentially crush the bones of an elephant? Meet ...

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

Hyainailourinae means Hyena-cats, and these more feline-like creatures first appeared in Africa about 47 million years ago.

Scientists have discovered a nearly complete skull of Bastetodon syrtos, a fierce prehistoric carnivore, in Egypt’s Fayum Depression. Dating back 30 million years, the find reshapes ...

Thirty million years ago, a fearsome carnivore roamed the lush forests of what is now Egypt. A recent discovery in the Fayoum Desert reveals the secrets of this little-known predator, shedding new ...

B. syrtos, which boasted razor-sharp teeth and a powerful jaw, belonged to an extinct group of meat-eating mammals called ...

This week, decipher clues from the world’s oldest rune stone, see the ethereal glow of birds-of-paradise, watch a light show ...

Archaeologists uncovered a fossilized skull of an ancient sharp-toothed predator that likely hunted early elephants and primates.