Jurassic croc had a deathly bite
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A rare fossil from the age of the dinosaurs is shedding light on when the modern crocodile first evolved a skull strong enough to keep hold of its prey during the dismembering &#39;death roll&#39;.
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A new fossil find suggests that the crocodile's crushing jaws evolved on dry land&#151;and long before its water-friendly body.
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Fatally injured by a stingray,   Australian "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin pulled its serrated   barb out of his chest before losing consciousness and dying,   the world-famous naturalist's manager said on Tuesday.
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Today researchers announced the discovery of a new species of ancient reptile. The 230-million-year-old remains of the long-necked, aquatic predator were found in China.
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A bizarre marine reptile used a neck nearly twice the length of its body to capture its prey, 230 million years ago. Fish saw only its small head in murky waters and, when they came too close, the animal quickly
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A 59-year-old man's arm was bitten off by an alligator as he snorkeled in a South Carolina lake, but doctors were unable to reattach it.
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By AJ HOSTETLER  About 220 million years ago, two reptiles gliding among the trees were apparently blown off course, falling and drowning in a nearby lake that is now the site of a quarry in southern Virginia.
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A freshman geology student on a field trip stumbled across the fossil of an oversized, salamander-like creature with vicious crocodile-like teeth that lived about 300 million years ago, paleontologists said.
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A newly discovered fossil might be the remains of one of the first stealth hunters, a swimming dinosaur that could use its long neck to sneak up on prey and strike without warning.
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A fossil of a new crab species reveals the itsy-bitsy crustaceans inhabited towering sponge reefs during the Jurassic Period, where they made tasty snacks for ichthyosaurs and other ancient reptiles.
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Fossilised remains found in southern China may hold the answer to a question that has long stumped palaeontologists: Just what is the purpose of the long neck on a group of predatory reptiles that roamed the earth millions of years ago?
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Elated scientists on Wednesday showed off a 130-million-year-old fossil that casts mammals in a new light by proving that in prehistoric times they fed on young dinosaurs.
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A gigantic bird-like dinosaur weighing as much as a car towered over its relatives about 70 million years ago, a new finding suggests.   The unearthed beaked dinosaur  was not full-grown, yet it tipped the scales at more than 3,000 pounds. Paleontologists who discovered its remains estimate the behemoth was just 11 years old when it perished.   Chinese scientists unearthed the skeletal remains of the dinosaur, now named Gigantoraptor erlianensis, in the Erlian Basin of Inner Mongolia, China. ...
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HOUSTON -- A Houston dentist has died after flesh-eating bacteria invaded a cut on his leg while he was fishing near Port O&#39;Connor about a month ago.
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By Ray Sasser, The Dallas Morning News  Sep. 10--It's ironic that Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, was killed last week by a stingray. Irwin, the hyperactive Australian, made a fortune by antagonizing large, dangerous animals into aggressive attacks for the camera.
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In a June 13 story about archaeologists discovering the fossil of a giant birdlike dinosaur, The Associated Press misspelled the name of a smaller, related dinosaur. The correct spelling is Caudipteryx, not Caudiperyx.
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A coronial inquest begins today into a fatal crocodile attack on a German tourist in Kakadu National Park more than 18 months ago.