Skull of Ancient, Extinct Apex Predator With Teeth Like Cat and Body of a Dog Found in Egypt Awes Experts An international ...

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 ...

A nearly complete skull fossil found in Egypt has revealed a new species of Hyaenodonta, an apex carnivore that mysteriously went extinct about 25 million years ago.

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 ...

after the cat-headed ancient Egyptian goddess Bastet, who symbolizes protection, pleasure, and good health. The researchers also compared the fossil to that of another lion-sized species of ...

This Egyptian mummified cat's head is part of the Market Harborough Historical Society's Collection which is on display at Harborough Museum. Cat's were an important animal to the ancient ...

The research team - also known as Sallam Lab - named the new species Bastetodon, after the ancient Egyptian cat-headed goddess Bastet, and "-odon" meaning "tooth". Shorouq Al-Ashqar, the lead ...

many of them sporting anthropomorphized animal features like the aforementioned cat-headed goddess Bastet. There are dozens of ancient Egyptian deities to choose from, but we picked the ones that ...