Shorouq Al-Ashqar, the lead study author, with the Bastetodon syrtos skull and a Bastet statue. Credit: Professor Hesham Sallam Once upon a time, some 30 million years ago, what is now Egypt’s Western ...

It turns out, the key to locating the desert rat-kangaroo could lie in its skull. Using computer models of museum specimen skulls, the research team — led by Rex Mitchell from Flinders ...

This small, possibly extinct marsupial from the inhospitable Sturt Stony Desert may have had a solid skull built for hard biting. But not enough to bite through the kinds of foods biologists used ...