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240 Million Years Ago, This "Warrior Crocodile" Armoured Terrorized the Current Brazil

A team of paleontologists from the Federal University of Santa Maria (Brazil) recently discovered a forgotten predator, Tainrakuasuchus bellator, in the south of the country. Published in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, their study reveals an ancestor of modern crocodiles, with a leathery body, with curved teeth, and with morphology misleadingly close to that of dinosaurs. This rare fossil documents a key period in the Trias, where the …
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A team of paleontologists from the Federal University of Santa Maria (Brazil) recently discovered a forgotten predator, Tainrakuasuchus bellator, in the south of the country. Published in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, their study reveals an ancestor of modern crocodiles, with a leathery body, with curved teeth, and with morphology misleadingly close to that of dinosaurs. This rare fossil documents a key period in the Trias, where the …

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Science-et-vie.com broke the news in on Saturday, November 15, 2025.
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