A 93-million-year-old crocodile has been discovered by scientists - with an infant dinosaur found in its stomach. Experts have dubbed the creature Confractosuchus Sauroktonos or "broken crocodile dinosaur killer", with its last meal of a prehistoric baby still in the belly.
A report for Gondwana Research stated that the giant reptile grew to roughly 2.5m (6-8ft), with scientists believing it died after being caught in a flood.
The croc was reportedly 35% preserved with a "near-complete skull" and its impressive teeth still intact. It was examined more closely by researchers using 3D scans and X-rays, according to the Mirror.
Joseph Bevitt, a co-author of the study, told Indy100: "In the initial scan in 2015, I spotted a buried bone in there that looked like a chicken bone with a hook on it and thought straight away that it was a dinosaur."Human eyes had never seen it previously, as it was, and still is, totally encased in rock."The fossilised remains were found in a large boulder.
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