One minute a 23-foot-long, 2,200-pound dinosaur was chomping on a crocodile leg, the next minute it was catastrophically buried. Thousands of years later, paleontologists dug it up and dubbed it a new megaraptor species, Joaquinraptor casali.
This unique find of fragments of jaw, skull, forelimbs, legs, and tail vertebrae makes it “one of the most complete megaraptor specimens discovered so far” and a first to give direct evidence of what the carnivore ate: apparently “ancient ancestors of crocodiles” (referred to as crocodyliforms in the article), based on a leg bone found between the lower jaw bones of Joaquinraptor (the researchers do say that the bone could possibly have washed into the creature’s mouth after it died, but based on the position and the tooth marks in the bone, they think that is an unlikely interpretation).
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