Hot on the heels of the
dinosaur eating snake comes a dinosaur eating crocodile that even munched on tyrannosaurs! :eek:
As an interesting side note, one of the lead researchers of
Deinosuchus is David R. Schwimmer, not to be confused with
David Schwimmer, who in a daft coincidence, plays Dr. Ross Gellar the palaeontologist from the hit TV series Friends.
Deinosuchus* tooth impressions in the bones of their prey tell the tale of titanic battles in which the 29-foot-long (9-meter-long) crocs took down dinosaurs their own size—including the T. rex relatives Appalachiosaurus montgomeriensis and Albertosaurus.
"One of the marks shows signs that the bone was healed, which means that the animal survived the bite," Schwimmer said.
Extraordinary news calls for an extraordinary image!
Illustration by Raul D. Martin
Interestingly enough it has also emerged that the local sharks dined on the mighty beast's feces.
The team also found a fossilized shark tooth embedded in the outside of a coprolite. But because the tooth bears no signs of having been digested, the team suspects a shark left the tooth behind when scavenging on Deinosuchus droppings.
Full article
here.
