Kronosaurus queenslandicus
Kronosaurus is not a dinosaur, but a pliosaur, a marine reptile which lived
in the vast inland sea that covered western Queensland between 110 and 100 million
years ago. Kronosaurus is named after Kronos, the Greek god of time, who
was so terrible that he ate his children. Kronosaurus is known from many
specimens. It was approximately 13 metres long, and had teeth the size of bananas.
It roamed the inland sea hunting ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, turtles and large fish,
and was the most ferocious and largest sea creature of its time. Kronosaurus
has a skull up to 2m long. Kronosaurus swam through the water using its large flippers,
but had to surface regularly as it was an air breathing animal.
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