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'Hammerhead' creature was world's first plant-eating marine reptile
2016-05-06 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] In 2014, scientists discovered a bizarre fossil—a crocodile-sized sea-dwelling reptile that lived 242 million years ago in what today is southern China. Its head was poorly preserved, but it seemed to have a flamingo-like beak. But in a paper published today in Science Advances, paleontologists reveal what was really going on—that “beak” is actually part of a hammerhead-shaped jaw apparatus, which it used to feed on plants on the ocean floor. It's the …
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Close Encounter With Hammerhead
2015-08-30 02:50:47| Biotech - Topix.net
An 8- to 10-foot hammerhead shark circled a group of kayakers off the San Diego coast, prompting lifeguards to close the beach due to the shark's "aggressive behavior" on Saturday, Aug. 29, 2015. A group of kayakers captured their heart-pounding close encounter with a hammerhead shark off the San Diego coast Saturday - a sighting that prompted lifeguards to close down crowded beaches nearby.
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