A newly discovered fossilization of experts pushed to believe Old types of crocodile Perhaps it was the predator that hunted dinosaurs on the ground.
The world of excavations and national geographical explorer Diego Paul and his team helped to reveal the remains Kostensuchus AtroxThe previously unknown type of crocodiles in Patagonia, near the Antarctica, which lived about 70 million years ago.
Visual rebuilding from Kostensuchus Atrox.
Gabriel Diaz Yantin / National Geographic
With its longer legs, scientists believe that this type may be more orientation towards the earth today, and perhaps he died around the ice age with dinosaurs.
Experts say that these crocodiles were Karavor, which means that he was eating meat almost exclusively. It is estimated that it is 11.5 feet and weighs about 550 lbs.

The fossil skull of Kostensuchus Atrox, which is 70 million, is a percentage of modern crocodiles.
Photo of Jose Prosco / National Geographic
According to Pol, it had “T. Rex’s teeth” with the huge jaw muscles that could “break you in two pieces with one bite.”
Paul, along with his colleagues and researchers from Brazil and Japan, described fossil discovery on August 27 in the magazine Plos one.
Find more about discovery in natgeo.com.

The excavation scientist Marcelo Isasi found the skull and dismantling Kostensuchus Atrox included in the Big Rock.
Photo by Federico Agnolin / National Geographic
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