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A mysterious Jurassic predator from Madagascar.
Previously, R. sakalavae was known from just seven loose teeth and a portion of an individual's right jaw with three additional teeth embedded in it. The fossils came from the Mahajanga Basin in northwestern Madagascar. Now, researchers from the Milan Natural History Museum in Italy and the Museum of Natural History, Toulouse in France have analyzed a handful of new fossils — most found in the 1970s in the same location — that have been sitting in their museum collections for decades.
The fossils revealed a fearsome beast with a mouthful of 6-inch-long teeth. These serrated teeth resembled those of T. rex, the researchers wrote, indicating that the animal likely used these chompers to crunch into tendons and scrape meat from bone. A tentative reconstruction of the animal's skull indicated that its head was about 3.3 feet long. That may make it the largest notosuchian ever found as well as the oldest, the researchers reported.
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