predator

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Imagine a baby Brachiosaurus no bigger than a golden retriever searching for plants alongside its siblings while trying to avoid predators eager for an easy meal.

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McVay initially yelled and tried to make herself bigger to startle away the predator.

From Los Angeles Times

High-resolution 3D scans of the Erythrobatrachus skull indicate it measured about 40 cm long when complete and belonged to a large-bodied predator with a broad head.

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The skull also appears to bear bite marks from a much larger predator -- likely another large ichthyosaur -- which may have caused its death.

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That pattern led some researchers to suggest these fish eating theropods may have been fully aquatic predators that hunted underwater.

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