In a rare find, a team of scientists in Egypt uncovered a nearly complete skull that offers insight into a not-before-discovered apex predator species that lived 30 million years ago. Published on ...

The study found that the skull was about 30 million years old and came from what was at the time an apex predator. The Bastet was a member of the hyaenodonta family. This family of animals has ...

leaving prehistorians to grapple with what caused the apex predator to go extinct. Now, an international team of paleontologists has found a new piece of the puzzle — a nearly complete skull of ...

These large species were the apex predators when the ancestors of cats and dogs were still small creatures. A newly-described fossil skull has given paleontologists their best look yet at a ...

“His excited shout brought the team together, marking the beginning of an extraordinary discovery: a nearly complete skull of an ancient apex carnivore, a dream for any vertebrate paleontologist.

Meet the Bastetodon, a newly discovered species of apex predator that roamed the lush ... based on an analysis of a remarkably intact skull discovered in the Egyptian desert.