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This Fossil Friday, let’s travel back to the Triassic to meet the mighty Prestosuchus chiniquensis. With large claws, a huge head, and sharp-toothed jaws, you might think this animal was a dinosaur. But, Prestosuchus was actually closely related to crocodylomorphs, a group that includes living crocs and their extinct relatives! At around 20 ft (6 m) long and 900 lbs (408 kg), Prestosuchus was one of the most formidable predators of its time—inhabiting what is now modern-day Brazil some 210 million years ago.