This Apex Predator Was ‘King of the Ancient Egyptian Forest’ Then Mysteriously Went Extinct

From the sands of Egypt’s Western Desert, a nearly complete skull of a prehistoric apex predator offers scientists the chance to understand ever so much about how climate change affects animal extinction. Belonging to a fully extinct order of carnivores called Hyaenodonts (hyena-teeth), the dozens of individuals that make up this lineage have been illustrated […] The post This Apex Predator Was ‘King of the Ancient Egyptian Forest’ Then Mysteriously Went Extinct appeared first on Good News Network.

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