Giant prehistoric croc goes on display

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Image credit: Valerie Everett

Steve Irwin, the daredevil Australian naturalist killed last year by a stingray, never wrestled a croc like this one. As long as a tourist bus and with jaws big enough to pick up a cow, "Sarcosuchus imperator" lived 110 million years ago and was surely the biggest, baddest crocodile to ever roam the earth.

his week its scales-and-blood likeness was unveiled by the man who first identified and named the amphibious predator based on fossil remains found in Niger more than 40 years ago.

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[TeraLink]

Nice joke with the uh, flesh, &... Resin.

I think Steve Irwin could've taken this one.

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[Space Commander Travis]

Darn, I'm a bit disappointed. When i saw the thread title in the index page, it said "Giant prehistoric croc goes on...."

I was thinking, what? "Goes on the rampage??" i was mildly disappointed to find that it was "on display".

[Archosaur]

What a crock!

Modern crocks today are about 15'. Sometimes, however, whoppers of 20'+ show up. If the 40' specimin was of average size, then their could have been the occasional 60' whopper.

[~ MacDDT ~]

I'm glad they aren't around now..man they could have easily took on hippos

[BaneSilvermoon]

Nice, if you cover all of that image except the head its not hard to imagine that being a Spinosaurus.

[Harriet The Ripperologist]

That's one heck of a crocodile - wish I had one to put in the living room!

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I think Steve Irwin could've taken this one.

Now that would be something to see! LOL!

[Jonny Wonny]

One word:

Gustave