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.

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

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.

A newly-described fossil skull has given paleontologists their best look yet at a hyaenodont with a meat-cleaving bite. (Can DNA solve the mystery of Europe’s pointy skulls?)Found in the 30 ...

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. CNN values your feedback 1.

Meet the Bastetodon, a newly discovered species of apex predator, roughly the size of a leopard or a hyena, that roamed the lush forests of ancient Egypt some 30 million years ago.

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 ...

An apex carnivore was ‘king of the ancient Egyptian forest’ then mysteriously went extinct. A fossil could offer clues ...

The Harbin skull (left) and the Dali skull (right).

New skull may help solve extinction riddle. The discovery also prompted Sallam Lab scientists to re-visit the findings on a separate lion-sized Hyaenodont species discovered more than 120 years ago.

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. CNN values your feedback 1.