Ichthyosaur's Last Meal is Evidence of Triassic Megapredation (IMAGE)

University of California - Davis

Ichthyosaur's Last Meal is Evidence of Triassic Megapredation

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The stomach of this 240-million year old fossil ichthyosaur contains the mid-section of another marine reptile that in life would have been only slight smaller. It's the first direct evidence of ancient megapredation -- one large animal eating another.

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Da-Yong Jiang, et al, iScience

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