Some were the size of a dog. Others were as large as polar bears. A newly-discovered fossil of the ferocious hyaenodont is helping scientists understand a little bit more about the mysterious ...

If you think your moggy at home demands attention, they’ve got nothing on Bastet, the Egyptian cat goddess. The extremely popular deity was originally depicted as a wild cat, but later on when ...

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 ...

Meet the Bastetodon, a newly discovered species of apex predator that roamed the lush forests of ancient Egypt some 30 million years ago. What had the body of a dog, the face of a cat and jaws ...

The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History is home to cat mummies as part of our anthropology collections. Cat coffins and representations of the cat-headed goddess Bastet are among the ...