"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.” ...

“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.

A team of scientists in Egypt have found a rare ancient skull belonging to a "fearsome" cat-like predator. The palaeontologists think the skull belongs to a new species of hyaenodonta - which is ...

However, medical texts from ancient Egypt indicate that healers of the time were aware of the condition. Now, new evidence ...

But no remains had been found to help fill in the gap between ancient humans and later inhabitants until the latest discovery. “A skull contains many pieces of information that point to ...

With sharp catlike teeth and a doglike body, ancient carnivores called hyaenodonts ... a new piece of the puzzle — a nearly complete skull of a previously unidentified species of hyaenodonta.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A nearly complete skull found in Egypt reveals a new 30-million-year-old species, Bastetodon, a leopard-sized apex predator from the extinct group Hyaenodonta ...