Seventy million years ago, southern Patagonia was a warm, seasonally wet landscape where dinosaurs, turtles, frogs, and mammals thrived. Hidden within its floodplains, a powerful predator stalked its ...

An international team of paleontologists announced the discovery of a 70-million-year-old carnivorous crocodile, Kostensuchus Atrox, in a study published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE. The first ...

Paleontologists have discovered the fossilized remains of a crocodile "hypercarnivore" that lived in what is now Argentina some 70 million years ago—and it ate dinosaurs. Named Kostensuchus atrox, the ...

Tens of millions of years ago, an apex predator resembling a giant crocodile stalked the humid freshwater floodplains of southern Patagonia. Measuring up to 11.5 feet (3.5 meters) long and weighing ...

Seventy million years ago, southern Patagonia was home to dinosaurs, turtles, and mammals—but also to a fierce crocodile-like predator. A newly discovered fossil, astonishingly well-preserved, reveals ...

K. atrox was hypercarnivorous, meaning more than 70% of its diet was meat. Equipped with a broad snout, big teeth and robust forelimbs, K. atrox 's anatomy suggests it was capable of taking down large ...

A giant crocodile-like apex predator hunted large prey — probably including medium-sized dinosaurs — around 70 million years ago in what is now southern Argentina 1. Reptiles that resemble modern-day ...