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Dakosaurus sliced other sea reptiles into small chunks

Adam Khor · 2019-08-06 23:47:06

Not a new creature, but a study confirming that the awesome Dakosaurus, a marine "crocodile" that looked rather like a cross between a theropod and a shark, was perfectly adapted to hunt and eat large sea reptiles- perhaps larger than itself. The study shows that the teeth of Dakosaurus would interlock when it closed its…

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Not a new creature, but a study confirming that the awesome Dakosaurus, a marine "crocodile" that looked rather like a cross between a theropod and a shark, was perfectly adapted to hunt and eat large sea reptiles- perhaps larger than itself.
The study shows that the teeth of Dakosaurus would interlock when it closed its jaws, and this would cause a shearing effect, allowing the "croc" to slice large chunks of flesh from a carcass (or live prey?) more like a great white shark than a crocodile.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.22491/abstract

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