Palaeontologists were preparing to leave the Egyptian desert when they noticed teeth protruding from the ground — and uncovered the skull of a 30-million-year-old apex predator

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The 2020 field season in Egypt’s Fayum Depression was almost over when palaeontologist Bilal Salem saw teeth projecting from the desert floor. The fossil beneath them was upside down. As the surrounding rock was carefully removed, the teeth became part of an exceptionally complete, three-dimensionally preserved skull belonging to a predator that had lived about [...] The post Palaeontologists were preparing to leave the Egyptian desert when they noticed teeth protruding from the ground — and uncovered the skull of a 30-million-year-old apex predator appeared first on Space Daily .