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Prehistoric Monster Crocodile Found

Posted by timothy on from the jaws-before-jaws-were-cool dept.

F452 writes: "From an AP story in the Minneapolis StarTribune: 'A crocodile longer than a school bus and weighing about 10 tons was the top predator in an African river 110 million years ago, routinely dining on large dinosaurs that came within range of its toothy jaws.' Cool."

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  1. Crocodile Hunter! by Mr.Phil · · Score: 4, Funny
    How come I see Steve Erwin jumping around yelling "crikey" and getting his daks in a bunch? Or trying to get enough people to jump on top of it to capture it?

    At least his mate Wes better be there.

    *chuckle*

  2. Photos by zpengo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why must Slashdot always post the articles without photos? D'oh! Here's one, for those who were wondering.

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  3. More complete story by Man+of+E · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here's a more complete story about it on National Geographic:
    http://www.nationalgeographic.com/supercroc/
    The page has more photos, information about the paleontologists, and a link to a photo gallery.

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