The Largest Known Carnivorous Sea Monsters Have Likely Been Found in The Swiss Alps

Researchers have found the broken tooth of one of the largest carnivores ever to stalk the Earth.

, seem to have become top predators without ever evolving teeth, according to the researchers. Only one species of giant ichthyosaur – the 50-foot-longSo, when scientists discovered a single large fossil ichthyosaur tooth in the Kössen Formation of the Swiss Alps – a 9,200-foot-high rock formation that existed at the bottom of a Triassic sea – the team had a bit of a mystery on their hands.

Similarly, the ribs and vertebrae from the Kössen Formation are some of the largest ichthyosaur fossils of their kind ever discovered in Europe, the researchers said. The tooth, ribs and vertebrae appear to belong to three different ichthyosaur specimens – all of them gargantuan.

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