Crocodile hunting dinosaurs

US scientists have found evidence of the existence of a plant-eating dinosaur, and the favorite "target" of prehistoric alligators.

Clint Boyd of South Dakota University of Mining and Technology has drawn this conclusion after collecting small fossil bones from this dinosaur in western Utah.

While examining the pieces of skull bones sticking to the teeth, the American expert discovered a bone connected to something like tooth enamel, but it was not part of the skull, but at the end of the femur.

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'A piece of thigh bone, with a plugged and broken crocodile tooth' , according to Fox News, expert Boyd. From there, his team began to review the rest of the bones, and discovered they were looking at the traces of an epic meal of ancient crocodiles.

The team of scientists realized that they were holding evidence of the existence of an ancient reptile, called crocodyliform , that specialized in attacking prey like the way alligators usually hunt.

They determined that what crocodyliform is eating is a small dinosaur that specializes in plants. Fossil bone fragments belong to a newborn dinosaur with a length of only 1 to 2 meters.

According to Boyd, the new finding suggests that it is necessary to re-adjust the image commonly known as the dominant species of the Earth's surface when it was the dinosaur family.

Based on the mark of the teeth left in the bone fossils, paleontologists believe that crocodiles eat no more than prey.