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Fearsome Hyena-Like Mammals Lived in Africa 30 Million Years Ago


Paleontologists from the American University in Cairo and elsewhere say they have found an almost complete skull of the hyaenodont Bastetodon syrtos in the lower Oligocene layers of the Jebel Qatrani Formation, Egypt.

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