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Ancient ‘terror crocodiles’ had teeth the size of bananas – CNET
Scientists take a new look at the extinct, jumbo Deinosuchus and find it truly lived up to its name.
This illustration shows Deinosuchus from bones to flesh.
Tyler Stone
Let’s turn the clock back by millions of years to a time when crocodiles as long as buses lived in the Americas. A new study of Deinosuchus fossils has revealed more details of what these mind-boggling predators looked like and how they behaved.
Deinosuchus, which can be translated as “terrible crocodile” or “terror crocodile,” ate dinosaurs, notes a paper published in late July in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. The…
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