Meet the Carolina Butcher: a nine-foot-tall, crocodile-like monster
Gigantic, walking reptilian alert! Carnufex carolinensis — a name that translates to “Carolina Butcher” — was a nine-foot-tall predator that walked on its hind legs about 230 million years ago, according to a study published today in Scientific Reports.
The Carolina Butcher is one of the oldest and biggest crocodile relatives discovered to date
The Carolina Butcher is one of the oldest and biggest crocodile relatives discovered to date. It would have towered over other animals at the time of its reign, before dinosaurs came along. “It was clearly a top predator,” Lindsay Zanno, paleontologist at North Carolina State University and a co-author of the study, tells The Washington Post. Other crocodile relatives at the time were fox-like…
Source:: The Verge
