Bastetodon would have preyed on primates such as Aegyptopithecus, an ancient relative of humans, as well as early hippos and elephants. Paleontologists uncovered the skull in 2020 in the Fayum ...

The newly-discovered species, named Bastetodon syrtos, is part of the Hyaenodonta family, an extinct species of carnivore that evolved long before modern cats, dogs and hyenas but resembled early ...

Shorouq Al-Ashqar, the lead study author, with the Bastetodon syrtos skull and a Bastet statue. Credit: Professor Hesham Sallam. Once upon a time, some 30 million years ago, what is now Egypt’s ...

An artist's reconstruction of Bastetodon syrtos, which lived in what is today Fayum, Egypt, some 30 million years ago. Ahmad Morsi "The Fayum is one of the most important fossil areas in Africa ...

Bastetodon likely hunted some of the smaller creatures and scavenged on the carcasses of the larger ones. Precisely how the hyper-carnivorous hyaenodonts hunted, though, is still a mystery.

The species Bastetodon syrtos would have been around the size of a modern leopard, and lived at a time when familiar orders ...

Bastetodon would have preyed on primates such as Aegyptopithecus, an ancient relative of humans, as well as early hippos and elephants. Paleontologists uncovered the skull in 2020 in the Fayum ...

The newly-discovered species, named Bastetodon syrtos, is part of the Hyaenodonta family, an extinct species of carnivore that evolved long before modern cats, dogs and hyenas but resembled early ...

The newly-discovered species, named Bastetodon syrtos, is part of the Hyaenodonta family, an extinct species of carnivore that evolved long before modern cats, dogs and hyenas but resembled early ...