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Cretaceous ‘terror crocodile’ crushed dinosaurs with banana-size teeth – Livescience.com
This enormous predator had jaws powerful enough to subdue massive dinosaur prey.
An enormous Cretaceous crocodile
relative hunted dinosaurs
, ripping them apart using powerful jaws lined with teeth “the size of bananas,” researchers say.
Known as Deinosuchus, which means “terrible crocodile” in Greek, this lineage of semiaquatic reptiles certainly lived up to its name. They were among the biggest predators in their watery North American habitats, where they lived between 75 million and 82 million years ago. And with bodies at least 33 feet (10 meters) long, they could su…
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