New species of 'apex predator' dinosaur discovered fossilized while chowing down on crocodile

Table for one-and-a-half.

Scientists have discovered a new “apex predator” dinosaur that appears to have been fossilized right in the middle of eating a crocodile-like creature.

The newly found Joaquinraptor casali was a 23-foot megaraptoran found in Argentina who had his final meal somewhere between 66 and 70 million years ago, in the late Cretaceous period, according to a paper published in Nature Tuesday. 3

The findings represent “the most completely represented and latest-surviving megaraptorans” ever found, the paper claimed.

A skull, an arm, a leg and tail bones of a 19-year-old specimen were all pulled from the Lago Caolhue Huapi rock formation in Patagonia — with the arm-bone of a prehistoric crocodile preserved in the Joaquinraptor ’s jaws, the Associated Press repo