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The bigger, but less common, Deinosuchus that lived in Texas and Montana might have been more specialized hunters, capturing and eating large dinosaurs. [17] Schwimmer noted no theropod dinosaurs in Deinosuchus 's eastern range approached its size, indicating the massive crocodilian could have been the region's apex predator .
Sarcosuchus (/ ˌ s ɑːr k oʊ ˈ s uː k ə s /; lit. ' flesh crocodile ') is an extinct genus of crocodyliform and distant relative of living crocodilians that lived during the Early Cretaceous, from the late Hauterivian to the early Albian, 133 to 112 million years ago of what is now Africa and South America.
A crocodile-like creature bit the neck of a flying dinosaur some 76 million years ago – and scientists have proof.. Archaeologists found the fossilized neck bone of the young pterosaur in Canada ...
Brochu cladistically defined Planocraniidae as Planocrania hengdongensis and crocodyliforms more closely related to it than to Alligator mississippiensis (American alligator), Crocodylus niloticus (Nile crocodile), Gavialis gangeticus (gharial), Thoracosaurus macrorhynchus, Allodaposuchus precedens, or Hylaeochampsa vectiana.
Paleontologists at the University of Uppsala in Sweden studied more than 500 pieces of fossilized dinosaur poop to find out how dinosaurs evolved.
Scientists believe they may have uncovered the first known incident of a mammal being eaten by a dinosaur. Palaeontologists in the UK have analysed fossil remains from around 120 million years ago ...
Confractosuchus is a rare example of a fossil crocodyliform with preserved stomach content, and is the first evidence of a crocodyliform eating a dinosaur. [11] Its prey, a juvenile ornithopod, is represented by multiple vertebrae and limb bones most likely belonging to a single individual. [ 1 ]
The name translated means "leaping foot crocodile". It has been proposed that Terrestrisuchus gracilis and Saltoposuchus connectens represent different ontogenetic stages of the same genus. [ 2 ] Saltoposuchus was commonly (and incorrectly) referred to in popular literature as the ancestor (or close ancestors) to dinosaurs; however, recent ...