Bastet, the Egyptian goddess of motherhood and fertility, famously sported a feline face. Even today, one of the oldest domesticated cat breeds in the world, the Egyptian Mau, traces its origins ...

The Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt announced that archaeologists unearthed a 2,000-year-old temple that was ...

So the team took inspiration from Bastet, the ancient leonine Egyptian goddess of pleasure, protection and good health, to come up with a new genus for the predator. Bastetodon literally means ...

Cats were also given in offering to the cat goddess, Bast. Bast was the deity of protection, fertility and motherhood. The presence of this cat's head in the Market Harborough Historical Society's ...

The researchers named the species after Bastet, the cat-headed goddess associated with protection and power. The suffix “-odon” means “tooth,” a nod to the predator’s defining feature ...