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 have discovered a nearly complete skull of a Hyaenodonta, a hypercarnivore that that lived during the Oligocene Epoch some 20 million years ago. Scientifically known as Bastetodon syrtos, ...

Scientists have uncovered an amazing leopard-sized predator that hunted early elephants ... Africa and North America during the Oligocene - a geologic epoch that lasted from about 33.9 to 23 ...

big-cat creature with a strong jaw and sharp teeth that occupied the spot at the top of the food chain during the Oligocene Epoch era. Discovered in Fayum, Egypt, the powerful predator would have ...

a hypercarnivore that that lived during the Oligocene Epoch some 20 million years ago. Scientifically known as Bastetodon syrtos, this impressive apex predator likely hunted elephants, early ...

Paleontologists have discovered a new species of a "fearsome" leopard-sized predator that would have ... to the cooling of the Oligocene (33.9 to 23 million years ago). "The Fayum is one of ...