Large sharks preyed upon plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs

Adam Khor

http://phys.org/news/2015-05-pre-historic-sharks-feast-marine-reptiles.html



First time I ever hear of Archaeolamna or Dwardius...

manjosh

Never heard of a plesiosaurs, but still aren't shark suppose to prey on like everything?

Adam Khor

Yes, big meat eating sharks will eat anything, no surprise there.

Linnaeus

We can well imagine the tremendous battles these predators must have waged. Plesiosaurs and Icthyosaurs against sharks...A scene of gory slaughter, in which the sharks would not have inflicted all of the wounds...Their adversaries were perfectly capable of defending themselves. The smaller the sharks were, the less chance they would have had of emerging victorious against the terrible Plesiosaurs, whose jaws were filled with razor-sharp teeth. Icthyiosaurus' appearance was deceiving: he LOOKED like a roly-poly dolphin, rather cute and inoffensive; but when hungry he would have attacked just about anything, and was not afraid of fighting against terrifying marine monsters.