K. atrox was hypercarnivorous, meaning meat made up over 70 percent of its diet. (Image: Gabriel Diaz Yanten, CC-BY 4.0 ) Imagine walking through Patagonia 70 million years ago. Instead of quiet ...

Tens of millions of years ago, an apex predator resembling a giant crocodile stalked the humid freshwater floodplains of southern Patagonia. Measuring up to 11.5 feet (3.5 meters) long and weighing ...

The creature, named K. atrox, was an extinct ancestor of the modern crocodile. A new study has identified a massive creature that hunted and ate dinosaurs 70 million years ago. It’s called ...

Seventy million years ago, southern Patagonia was home to dinosaurs, turtles, and mammals—but also to a fierce crocodile-like predator. A newly discovered fossil, astonishingly well-preserved, reveals ...

A gigantic crocodile-like creature probably ate dinosaurs 70-million-years ago, a new study has revealed. Like today's crocodiles, the reptile was a hyper-carnivore, which means most of its diet is ...

Meet Kostensuchus Atrox, a land-stalking crocodile cousin from late Cretaceous Argentina A 70-million-year-old apex predator fossil with a well-preserved skull and skeleton marks the first nearly ...

Scientists have discovered a “hypercarnivore” crocodile-relative species in Argentina that terrorised dinosaurs in the region with its powerful jaw and big teeth. The new species has been named ...

A giant crocodile-like apex predator hunted large prey — probably including medium-sized dinosaurs — around 70 million years ago in what is now southern Argentina 1. Reptiles that resemble modern-day ...