Dead Stuff Daily(ish) 02
Episode 2: Cryodrako, it's what's for dinner!
1/23/20251 min read
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Caleb M. Brown et al, A juvenile pterosaur vertebra with putative crocodilian bite from the Campanian of Alberta, Canada, Journal of Paleontology (2025). DOI: 10.1017/jpa.2024.12
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you ever feel like life is kind of chewing you up well this terrasaur sure did I dig dead stuff and this is dead stuff news so 76 million years ago this cryo dren was eaten by a crocodile paleontologist know this because they found a vertebra with crocodile bite marks in it now this thing must have been absolutely massive because even as a juvenile this as dark it would have had a 2 meter wingspan as an adult it would have had a 10 meter wingspan been roughly the height of a giraffe standing up despite their size their fossils are pretty rare because their bones are so fragile this paper is actually the first evidence of a North American crocodilian eating a terasa thankfully even though Crocs are great at eating they kind of suck at chewing