Carnivores chowed vegetarians on SA's heritage days of yore

Giant, predatory crocodile-like animals that lived during the Triassic period preyed on early vegetarian dinosaurs and mammal relatives, according to new findings by a Wits University master’s student.

“It is amazing to follow the clues left behind in fossilised teeth, jaws, limbs and other fossils to help us tell the ancient story of life in southern Africa.” The specimens described in the research include some of the largest carnivorous members of this group, possibly up to 10m long, with huge skulls full of serrated, curved teeth., shows the rauisuchians were some of the latest-surviving members of their group, and that when they were alive they thrived close to the Antarctic circle.“In the Triassic period, rauisuchians were widespread and their fossils are known from all continents except Antarctica,” said Tolchard.

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