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9-foot ‘butcher crocodile’ likely ruled before dinosaurs

03/19/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
A life reconstruction of the giant crocodile ancestor (Carnufex carolinensis) that lived some 231 million years ago in what is now North Carolina. (Copyright Jorge Gonzales. Open access) A 9-foot-tall beast with bladelike teeth once stalked the warm and wet…