A terrifying crocodile relative, with teeth like a T. rex, may have taken on dinosaurs
Meet "Razana," a gigantic lizard ancestor with the teeth of a T. rex and the body of a crocodile.
The prehistoric beast — formally named Razanandrongobe sakalavae — was likely a top predator in Madagascar about 170 million years ago, when dinosaurs also roamed the planet, a team of Italian and French paleontologists said Tuesday.
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Razana had a massive jaw bone lined with enormous jagged teeth, which were similar in size and shape to those of a Tyrannosaurus rex, the scientists wrote in a study published July 4 in the journal PeerJ. That suggests the teeth were sharp enough to slice through hard tissue such as bone and tendon. Read more...
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