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Paleontologists from the Sallam Lab in Egypt have discovered an unidentified species of the ancient carnivores Hyaenodonts. The leopard-shaped Bastetodon roamed the Earth 30 million years ago and ...

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 Western ...

Discover Bastetodon syrtos, a newly identified apex predator from ancient Egypt. Learn about its fossil discovery, evolutionary significance, and the reasons behind the extinction of hyaenodonts.

They named it Bastetodon syrtos, after the cat-headed Egyptian goddess Bastet. B. syrtos, which boasted razor-sharp teeth and a powerful jaw, belonged to an extinct group of meat-eating mammals ...

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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 ...

The rare, well-preserved skull enabled researchers to recreate what Bastetodon syrtos looked like in real life, including some of its more bizarre features.

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.

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.