A croc attack on a flying reptile is shown by a fossil.
By Will Dunham Reuters, January 24 Ignorant of the danger that loomed at the water's edge, a juvenile of Cryodrakon boreas, one of the largest flying creatures in Earth's history, wandered along a riverbank on a lush coastal plain some 76 million years ago. It dipped its toothless beak to take a sip. Abruptly, a massive croc emerged from the water in a surprise attack and buried its teeth into the neck of the Cryodrakon. In the Canadian province of Alberta during the Cretaceous Period, that meant the...