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93-million-year-old 'dinosaur killer' crocodile found - with one still in its stomach

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dinosaur in its stomach.Experts believe the huge croc had grown up to 8ft long before being killed in a flood just after it had polished off the dinosaur.The reptile was 35% preserved, and it had a “near-complete” skull and terrifying teeth.

Researchers used a nuclear technique to examine it in more detail, reports Ansto (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology).The remarkable find in Central Queensland, Australia, has been labelled the Confractosuchus Sauroktonos (“broken crocodile dinosaur killer").The discovery of the fossils in 2010 was made by the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum and the University of New England, who have now published their findings in the journal Gondwana Research.Joseph Bevitt, one of the co-authors of the study, said: “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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