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Sneak attack! Anteosaurus would have terrorized its prey long before dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
This reconstruction shows an Anteosaurus taking down an herbivorous Moschognathus.
Alex Bernardini (@SimplexPaleo)
Dinosaurs get all the glory, but there were some fantastic beasts roaming the planet long before dinosaurs came along. One of these animals, the big-jawed Anteosaurus, was thought to be sluggish, but new research shows it was likely a vicious and effective hunter.
The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in South Africa described Anteosaurus as “a ferocious hunter-killer” in…
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