A nearly complete skull of the creature was found in the Egyptian desert. Its lineage indicates that it was a top carnivore ...

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 ...

"That was a moment," she said. Paleontologist Shorouq Al-Ashqar with the Bastetodon's remarkably intact skull and a figure of the Egyptian cat goddess Bastet. (Hesham Sallam/American University in ...

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 ...

Bastetodon was named for the cat-headed Egyptian goddess Bastet, who symbolized protection, pleasure, and good health. It was also an acknowledgment of its cat-like snout and the region where the ...

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

They chose to name the newly-found species after the ancient Egyptian goddess Bastet, the cat-headed symbol of protection, pleasure and good health. New skull may help solve extinction riddle The ...

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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 ...

The researchers named the species after Bastet, the cat-headed goddess associated with protection and power. The suffix “-odon” means “tooth,” a nod to the predator’s defining feature ...