A Bizarre 170-Million-Year-Old Predator Is Rewriting What We Know About Ancient Crocodiles
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Ctenosuchus tenuidens, a 170-million-year-old crocodile relative from Morocco, had needle-like teeth so fragile they could only have caught tiny prey like shrimp and worms, not large fish. The discovery shows that different prehistoric reptile groups independently evolved similar filter-feeding adaptations.
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