Analysis of bite marks on Tanystropheus hydroides, which lived during the Middle Triassic, showed another predator had attacked from above and torn its neck in two.
A giant predator that lived 240 million years ago was decapitated with a single, brutal bite from a deadlier creature, scientists have said.
Stephan Spiekman, a vertebrate paleontologist at the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, in Germany, was studying two Tanystropheus specimens as part of his doctoral work at Switzerland's Paleontological Museum of the University of Zurich. The first belonged to T. hydroides, while the second was T. longobardicus — a smaller species that was around 5 feet long.
In a new study published Monday in Current Biology, the researchers found evidence to suggest the attack happened from above, with the predator swooping down and biting the neck to decapitate the Tanystropheus. There was no trace of the bodies, but the heads and what remained of the necks were very well preserved. This indicates the predator targeted the long necks to quickly kill the Tanystropheus so it could feast on their meaty bodies.
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