Dinosaurs have a reputation for being the most terrifying prehistoric predators, but a newly discovered skull sheds light on a fearsome beast that dominated 40 million years before the first 'terrible lizards' walked the Earth.
It wasn't just its size that madestand out. Their skulls were thickly built, like many dinocephalians, earning the clade its fitting name, which translates to"terrible head" in Greek.The new information revealed by this skull's analysis leads the researchers to believe a currently unidentified jawbone is from an even larger, badder version of.
"Its discovery is key to providing a glimpse into the community structure of terrestrial ecosystems just prior to the biggest mass extinction of all time," PierceThe research has been published in
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