What had the body of a dog, the face of a cat and jaws powerful enough to potentially crush the bones of an elephant? Meet the Bastetodon, a newly discovered species of apex predator, roughly the size ...

A rare discovery of a nearly complete skull in the Egyptian desert has led scientists to the 'dream' revelation of a new 30-million-year-old species of the ancient apex predatory carnivore, ...

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The sight of a saltwater crocodile basking on a mudbank is one of the most iconic and intimidating images of northern Australia. Yet the crocodiles that inhabit the region today are just the survivors ...

Shorouq Al-Ashqar, the lead study author, with the Bastetodon syrtos skull and a Bastet statue. Credit: Professor Hesham Sallam Once upon a time, some 30 million years ago, what is now Egypt’s Western ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 30 million-year-old nearly complete skull fossil found in Egypt has revealed a newfound species of hyaenodonta, an ancient apex ...

A groundbreaking study published in Science has revealed that ancient squids were not only abundant but also dominated the oceans around 100 million years ago. The research, conducted by a team of ...