{"id":65609,"date":"2025-02-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/senegal\/politique\/decouverte-dun-super-predateur-qui-regnait-sur-legypte-il-y-a-30-millions-dannees"},"modified":"2025-02-20T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T12:00:00","slug":"decouverte-dun-super-predateur-qui-regnait-sur-legypte-il-y-a-30-millions-dannees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/senegal\/toutes-les-actualites\/decouverte-dun-super-predateur-qui-regnait-sur-legypte-il-y-a-30-millions-dannees","title":{"rendered":"D\u00e9couverte D\u2019Un Super-pr\u00e9dateur qui R\u00e9gnait sur L\u2019Egypte il y a 30 Millions D\u2019ann\u00e9es"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Senegal. <\/strong><\/span>Aussi gros qu\u2019un le\u0301opard et dote\u0301 de puissantes ma\u0302choires, le Bastetodon syrtos hantait les fore\u0302ts de Fayoum et devait s\u2019attaquer aux ance\u0302tres des hippopotames, des e\u0301le\u0301phants ou des damans. Trente millions d\u2019anne\u0301es apre\u0300s, la re\u0301gion est devenue de\u0301sertique et vient de livrer un cra\u0302ne de cette cre\u0301ature qui e\u0301tait inconnue des scientifiques jusque-la\u0300.<\/p>\n<p><b>Hommage a\u0300 une de\u0301esse<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Le fossile appartient au groupe des hyaenodontes, des mammife\u0300res qui ont e\u0301volue\u0301 bien avant les carnivores modernes et qui e\u0301taient des pre\u0301dateurs redoutables aux dents ace\u0301re\u0301es (semblables a\u0300 celles des hye\u0300nes) et aux ma\u0302choires musculeuses capables de mordre avec force. Le cra\u0302ne retrouve\u0301 presque intact a donc permis de caracte\u0301riser une nouvelle espe\u0300ce et un nouveau genre dont le nom rend hommage a\u0300 la de\u0301esse, a\u0300 te\u0302te de chat, Bastet qui symbolisait la protection, le plaisir et la bonne sante\u0301. La description comple\u0300te de ce qui devait e\u0302tre le pre\u0301dateur apex de la re\u0301gion fait l\u2019objet d\u2019une publication dans le Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.<\/p>\n<p>Outre l\u2019identification de Bastetodon, l\u2019e\u0301quipe de pale\u0301ontologues a re\u0301examine\u0301 des fossiles de hyaenodontes de\u0301couverts dans les roches du Fayoum il y a plus d\u2019un sie\u0300cle. Ces fossiles, initialement attribue\u0301s a\u0300 un groupe europe\u0301en, ont e\u0301te\u0301 reclasse\u0301s sous un nouveau genre, Sekhmetops, en hommage a\u0300 la de\u0301esse Sekhmet. Cette re\u0301e\u0301valuation sugge\u0300re que les hyaenodontes africains ont joue\u0301 un ro\u0302le majeur dans la dispersion des carnivores a\u0300 travers l\u2019Eurasie.<\/p>\n<p><b>Les plus grands carnivores terrestres<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Les recherches indiquent qu\u2019a\u0300 partir de 18 millions d\u2019anne\u0301es, certains hyaenodontes figuraient parmi les plus grands carnivores terrestres. Toutefois, les changements climatiques et les modifications tectoniques du continent africain ont ouvert la voie aux ance\u0302tres des fe\u0301lins, canide\u0301s et hye\u0300nes modernes, entrai\u0302nant le de\u0301clin et l\u2019extinction des hyaenodontes.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab La de\u0301couverte de Bastetodon constitue une avance\u0301e majeure dans la compre\u0301hension de l\u2019e\u0301volution des hyaenodontes et de leur dispersion a\u0300 l\u2019e\u0301chelle mondiale \u00bb, explique Shorouq Al-Ashqar, principale auteure de l\u2019e\u0301tude. \u00ab Nous espe\u0301rons poursuivre nos recherches pour mieux comprendre les interactions entre ces pre\u0301dateurs et leur environnement a\u0300 travers le temps et les continents. \u00bb<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pour plus d&rsquo;informations et d&rsquo;analyses sur la <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Senegal<\/span>, suivez <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Senegal. 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Trente millions d\u2019anne\u0301es apre\u0300s, la re\u0301gion est devenue de\u0301sertique et vient de livrer un cra\u0302ne de cette cre\u0301ature qui e\u0301tait inconnue des scientifiques [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":65608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,10],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-65609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-divers","category-toutes-les-actualites","tag-senegal-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>D\u00e9couverte D\u2019Un Super-pr\u00e9dateur qui R\u00e9gnait sur L\u2019Egypte il y a 30 Millions D\u2019ann\u00e9es - Senegal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/senegal\/politique\/decouverte-dun-super-predateur-qui-regnait-sur-legypte-il-y-a-30-millions-dannees\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"D\u00e9couverte D\u2019Un Super-pr\u00e9dateur qui R\u00e9gnait sur L\u2019Egypte il y a 30 Millions D\u2019ann\u00e9es\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Senegal. 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