In life, the Bastetodon was leopard-sized with a short, cat-like snout, hyena-like teeth and a dog-like body. The discovery of the most complete skull ever found belonging to the hyaenodonta ...

The team named the new genus Bastetodon partly in reference to the cat-headed ancient Egyptian goddess Bastet, in honor of where the specimen was unearthed and of the feline-like snout of the ancient ...

Scientists found the nearly complete skull of a new 30-million-year-old ... a deadly and agile mammal the size of a modern-day leopard. Known as a Bastetodon, the animal had sharp teeth and ...

The name is also a nod to the short, cat-like snout and teeth of this fearsome, leopard-sized carnivore (-odon means tooth). Its skull was unearthed on Sallam Lab's expedition to the Fayum ...

A nearly complete skull fossil found in Egypt has revealed a new species of Hyaenodonta, an apex carnivore that mysteriously ...

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The palaeontologists think the skull belongs to a new species of hyaenodonta ... Hyaenodonts had sharp teeth like a hyena, and were around the size of a leopard, hunting primates and early ...

The name is also a nod to the short, cat-like snout and teeth of this fearsome, leopard-sized carnivore (“-odon” means “tooth”). Its skull was unearthed on Sallam Lab’s expedition to the ...