Meet Carlo, an ancient reptile who had part of his face bitten off

By Michael Marshall

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A wide marine reptile from the dinosaur generation had fraction of its face bitten off, potentially by one other member of its species. The vast predator survived the attack, on the different hand it misplaced fraction of its jaw and developed a excessive an infection – both of that might merely bear contributed to its closing demise.

“It’s hiss proof of a violent interaction between participants of the the same species,” says Dylan Bastiaans on the University of Zurich in Switzerland.

The animal changed into a mosasaur: considered one of loads of groups of reptiles …