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Incredible Fossil Shows a Sea Monster in the Belly of an Even Bigger Sea Monster – Gizmodo Australia

As the Jedi master Qui-Gon Jinn once said, “There’s always a bigger fish.” Or in the case of the Triassic Period, there’s always a bigger aquatic reptile, as this incredible fossil demonstrates. New research published in iScience offers the oldest direct evid…

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As the Jedi master Qui-Gon Jinn once said, Theres always a bigger fish. Or in the case of the Triassic Period, theres always a bigger aquatic reptile, as this incredible fossil demonstrates.
New research published in iScience offers the oldest direct evidence of megapredation in the fossil record, in which an apex predator feeds upon formidably sized prey.
The fossil, found at a quarry in Guizhou province of southwestern China, appears to show a 4.57 m-long ichthyosaur (pronounced ick-thee-oh-…

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