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Pre-Dinosaur Reptile Discovered—Long-Necked Hunter
China - With its body obscured by murky waters, an ancient fanged reptile may have used its long neck to lunge at fish and squid. The scenario is based on analysis of a 230-million-year-old fossil discovered in southeastern China.
The new creature appeared long before the dinosaurs and is named Dinocephalosaurus orientalis, which means "terrible headed lizard from the Orient." It was a protorosaur, part of an order of diverse, predatory reptiles that lived as far back as 280 million years ago.