Scientists in Egypt discovered a not-before-known apex predator that lived 30 million years ago, potentially helping to solve an extinction mystery.

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 after the dinosaurs went extinct, but would eventually meet their own untimely end.

Researchers in Egypt have found a 30-million-year-old skull of Bastetodon, revealing a powerful predator (Hyaenodonta).

In a nutshell Scientists have discovered a remarkably complete skull of a new prehistoric carnivore species in Egypt’s Fayum Depression, named Bastetodon syrtos, which lived about 30 million years ago and was roughly the size of a modern leopard The discovery has led researchers to correct a century-old misclassification of ancient African predators,

The skull of a ferocious apex predator that possessed a terrifying bite that it used to hunt down and prey on the ancestors of early elephants and hippos has been discovered

Scientists have discovered a nearly complete skull of Bastetodon syrtos, a fierce prehistoric carnivore, in Egypt’s Fayum Depression.

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.

Buried beneath the sun-scorched sands of Egypt’s Fayum Depression, a place where ancient forests once flourished, scientists have unearthed the skull of a fearsome predator that ruled the land 30 million years ago.