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 dive into the genomes of whales, elephants, and other animal giants looking for new weapons in the fight against ...

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, ...

Five lions were sprawled out and sunning on rocks alongside Kenya’s Voi River. Hippos wallowed nearby. Elephants drank and ...

The centre has already cared for dassies (rock hyrax), goslings, various bird species, and even snakes. It has also become a key rehabilitation site for orphaned and injured blue cranes, ...

the animal had sharp teeth and a powerful bite to rip into its prey, including the hyraxes, early elephants and hippos, and primates that lived in the former forest of Fayum. Hyaenodonts hunted in ...

Findings, published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, detail how this ferocious creature would have likely preyed on primates, early hippos, early elephants, and hyraxes in the lush ...

The newly-discovered species, named Bastetodon syrtos ... early elephants and hyraxes, but were later wiped out themselves. In life, the Bastetodon was leopard-sized with a short, cat-like ...

Archaeologists uncovered a fossilized skull of an ancient sharp-toothed predator that likely hunted early elephants and primates.