Giant Predatory Ichthyosaur Discovered in Nevada http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

An enormous marine predator lurked in the Triassic seas covering Nevada: a sea monster big enough to eat reptiles its own size. Named Thalattoarchon saurophagis -- or lizard-eating sovereign of the sea -- the four-finned swimming behemoth was a large apex marine predator, occupying the same position atop the food chain as present-day great white sharks and killer whales, a team of paleontologists reports Jan. 7 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.



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