'Super-croc' discovered in museum drawer

[jobberone]

Long-forgotten remains of a giant dolphin-shaped crocodilian "super-predator" that could devour ancient beasts its size and larger have now been discovered in a museum drawer in Scotland, researchers say.

The ancient newfound crocodilian is named Tyrannoneustes lythrodectikos, which in ancient Greek means "blood-biting tyrant swimmer."

"Tyrannoneustes was a dolphinlike crocodile that lived 165 million years ago," said researcher Mark Young, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and the University of Southampton in England.

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[Future]

how on earth do you forget about something like that?

[jobberone]

Wonder what other stuff is lying around waiting on discovery? And we're seeing only a small % of the fossil record.

There's also a lot of interesting stuff going on with hominid fossils and tools.

[ABQCOWBOY]

Originally Posted by Future

how on earth do you forget about something like that?

It's pretty easy. You get to sipping the Brandy and slamming down Pints of an afternoon and pretty soon, "Augh, just stick it in that drawer over there. We can start on it again ~Buuurrpppp~ on Monday."

[ABQCOWBOY]

Here is what scholars believe it to have looked like.





Another Pick of the beast: