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

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 ...

About 30 million years ago, parts of Egypt were covered in lush forests. Within those trees, lurked an order of fearsome big cat-sized carnivores called Hyaenodonta. These apex predators thrived ...

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 ...

Meet the Bastetodon, a newly discovered species of apex predator that roamed the lush forests of ancient Egypt some 30 million years ago. What had the body of a dog, the face of a cat and jaws ...

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 ...

Archaeologists identified the partial figures as Bastet, an Egyptian deity who often took the form of a cat, and Harpocrates, another form of the sun god Horus typically depicted as a child.