Scientists have hailed the invention of what they are saying was one of many ugliest predators of the age of the dinosaurs — a large sea lizard “with a demon’s face and teeth like knives” that might have swallowed you complete.
The metre-long cranium of Khinjaria acutus was found in a phosphate mine close to Casablanca in Morocco. The reptile lived about 66 million years in the past, throughout the period of Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops, simply earlier than an asteroid strike worn out the dinosaurs.
From the tip of its snout to its tail, it will have measured about 8 metres, making it about so long as a killer whale. The rear portion of its cranium was elongated, offering an enormous space of bone for highly effective jaw-closing muscle mass to connect