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Photos: Dino Had Crocodile-Like Skull
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/fcf1a419-8d4c-4dae-ae09-200205e175bf/89C90457-11C6-4602-8F03-0C7CC9CA7075/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/photogalleries/dinosaur-pictures/index.html" href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/photogalleries/dinosaur-pictures/index.html" style="font-size: 11px;">news.nationalgeographic.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/photogalleries/dinosaur-pictures/index.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.nationalgeographic.com/img/AD18F24D-8E57-4BFA-95F4-BA06A5F250C9" alt="Fish-Eating Dinosaur Had Crocodile-Like Skull (Pictures)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/photogalleries/dinosaur-pictures/index.html">This bizarre British dinosaur may look like a meat-eater, but its skull actually functioned more like that of a fish-eating crocodile,</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/photogalleries/dinosaur-pictures/index.html"><DIV> When eating, <I>Baryonyx walkeri'</I>s skull stretched and bent in a similar fashion to the modern-day <A href=" http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/reptiles/gavial.html">gavial</A>, or gharial, an Indian crocodile with long, narrow jaws. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/photogalleries/dinosaur-pictures/index.html"><DIV> This spinosaur—part of a family of dinosaurs called "spine lizards," which lived about 125 million years ago—also had large, 12-inch-long (30-centimeter-long) front claws. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/photogalleries/dinosaur-pictures/index.html"><DIV> The 30-foot-long (9-meter-long) animal may have used them for scooping fish from the water (see above illustration). </DIV></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/photogalleries/dinosaur-pictures/photo2.html" href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/photogalleries/dinosaur-pictures/photo2.html" style="font-size: 11px;">news.nationalgeographic.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/photogalleries/dinosaur-pictures/photo2.html"><DIV> Though the British dinosaur looks like a typical carnivore, several clues suggest a fish diet. For instance, the reptile had stout, conical teeth, rather than the bladelike teeth of meat-eaters. Scientists also found partially digested fish scales and teeth in an excavated specimen. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/photogalleries/dinosaur-pictures/photo2.html"> " … We wanted to establish which it was more similar to, structurally and functionally—a dinosaur or a crocodile,"</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/photogalleries/dinosaur-pictures/photo3.html" href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/photogalleries/dinosaur-pictures/photo3.html" style="font-size: 11px;">news.nationalgeographic.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/photogalleries/dinosaur-pictures/photo3.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.nationalgeographic.com/img/154ADAC2-B9FD-4BA7-8B5A-455FB0DF2CD0" alt="Fish-Eating Dinosaur Had Crocodile-Like Skull (Pictures)" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/photogalleries/dinosaur-pictures/photo4.html" href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/photogalleries/dinosaur-pictures/photo4.html" style="font-size: 11px;">news.nationalgeographic.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/photogalleries/dinosaur-pictures/photo4.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.nationalgeographic.com/img/85DC87C1-A467-4376-A29F-1764AB5F359E" alt="Fish-Eating Dinosaur Had Crocodile-Like Skull (Pictures)" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/89C90457-11C6-4602-8F03-0C7CC9CA7075/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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