Finding a fossil tooth embedded in bone is always great news for palaeontologists, as it is the gateway to some otherwise out-of-reach understanding of the behaviour of extinct animals.
A live reconstruction of Anteosaurus attacking a herbivorous Moschognathus.
Artwork by Alex Bernardini @SimplexPaléo
Because of its skeleton’s heavy architecture, scientists have always assumed that Anteosaurus was a rather sluggish, slow-moving animal, only capable of scavenging or ambushing its prey, at best.
The skeleton of a therapsid dicynodont Lystrosaurus.
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