A leopard-sized mammal sat atop its food chain 30 million years ago, hunting early hippos, primates and elephants in what is now Egypt 1. During an expedition to a fossil-rich basin in the desert ...

So the team took inspiration from Bastet, the ancient leonine Egyptian goddess of pleasure, protection and good health, to come up with a new genus for the predator. Bastetodon literally means ...

Meet the Bastetodon, a newly discovered species of apex predator that roamed the lush forests of ancient Egypt some 30 million years ago. What had the body of a dog, the face of a cat and jaws ...

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 ...

From the sands of Egypt’s Western Desert, a nearly complete skull of a prehistoric apex predator offers scientists ... it Bastetodon in homage to the Ancient Egyptian cat goddess Bastet.

syrtos. The discovery of Bastetodon syrtos is a significant step forward in understanding ancient predator-prey dynamics and the evolutionary history of carnivorous mammals. It provides vital ...

A leopard-sized “fearsome” predator that hunted early elephants ... a nearly complete skull of an ancient apex carnivore, a dream for any vertebrate paleontologist.” The researchers say ...

Feb. 14, 2025 — Ancient Egyptian mummified bodies smell 'woody,' 'spicy' and 'sweet', finds a new study, revealing new details about mumification ...

Meet the Bastetodon, a newly discovered species of apex predator, roughly the size of a leopard or a hyena, that roamed the lush forests of ancient Egypt some 30 million years ago. "It is really ...