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Unlike its evolutionary marine ancestors who dined more placidly on mollusks and small fish, Godzilla preyed on reptiles of the deep sea in the days of the dinosaurs but finally went extinct during the great mass extinction of 65 million years ago -- cause of death unknown, say its discoverers.
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Read More »With its fierce, serrated teeth, its massive skull, its tail like a fish's and its flippers like four paddles, an ocean-dwelling crocodile scientists have named Godzilla must have been a terror of the Jurassic seas 135 million years ago. Unlike its evolutionary marine ancestors who dined more placidly on mollusks and small fish, Godzilla preyed on reptiles of the deep sea in the days of the dinosaurs but finally went extinct during the great mass extinction of 65 million years ago -- cause of death unknown, say its discoverers. Scientists from Argentina and the United States reported the discovery of this bizarre sea monster's fossil skull Thursday in the online version of the journal Science, and they discussed it with reporters during a telephone conference call. The find, said Diego Pol of Ohio State University, offers new light on the evolution of the entire crocodile family. "On the land, Godzilla's early ancestors were probably small, swift-running reptiles that subsisted on plants, or perhaps were omnivorous, and flourished more than 200 million years ago," Pol said. "But then came a period of amazing radiation, of a diversity of forms, and while many of the far larger crocodilian descendants remained on land, others took to the seas to become the one we are describing. "Godzilla wasn't nice at all, and was certainly the top ocean predator of his time." The fossil's story began more than a dozen years ago when farmers near the town of San Rafael at the western base of the Andes in Argentina's Mendoza province found a few scattered fossil bones and took them to a local museum. There, Zulma Gasparini, a paleontologist at the National University of La Plata, examined them and became intrigued by their crocodilian aspects. The find drew other fossil hunters who excavated the animal's complete skull near the village of Chos Malal in Neuquen province. Gasparini was struck by its snout and teeth that resembled the dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex. Although modern saltwater crocodiles may stretch as long as 30 feet, Gasparini and Pol calculated their creature must have been at least 12 feet long, with a total of 52 jagged, saw-like teeth in its massive jaws. The senior author of the Science report, Gasparini named the fossil creature Dakosaurus andiniensis and noted that it resembled a similar species named Dakosaurus maximus whose fossils have been found in Europe. The authors call it "chico malo," she said, "the bad boy of the sea." When Godzilla lived, a vast ocean filled much of what is now Argentina. At the base of the Andes, the water was probably up to 750 feet deep. Dakosaurus, being amphibious, probably sought its prey near the bottom of the sea while rising every now and then to gulp air, according to Pol. The National Geographic Society funded part of the research, and Godzilla will be featured in National Geographic's December issue.
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