Discovery of Bite Marks On 240 Million-Year-Old Fossils Shows Long-Necked Marine Reptile Was Prone to Predation

Fossil evidence confirms that Tanystropheus, a pre-historic marine reptile with a long neck, was decapitated by predators.
Tanystropheushad a neck composed of 13 elongated vertebrae and lived during the Triassic period.
The larger species of Tanystropheus reached up to 20 feet long, while the smaller species was around 5 feet long.
Predators of the larger Tanystropheus were likely other large marine reptiles, while the smaller species may have been preyed upon by various marine reptiles or predatory fish.
Tanystropheus was a distant relative of dinosaurs and thrived for around 10 million years across the northern hemisphere.