An archosaur wanders amidst cycads and ferns in a ?
A 15-foot-long, 500 pound rauisuchian archosaur of the genus Prestosuchus wanders amidst cycads and ferns in a swamp 230 million years ago in what is today Brazil. With long powerful legs, sharp teeth and a crocodile-like body, Prestosuchus was probably an ambush predator and likely a fast runner. In the foreground to the Prestosuchus left is a foot-long prehistoric amphibian known as a labyrinthodont
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11106156
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48400243
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© Stocktrek Images / Mary Evans
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Walter Myers/Stocktrek Images
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