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Scientists Discover a Rare Fossil With a Tooth From Another Predator Locked Inside for Millions of Years

Nothing about this fossil seemed extraordinary at first. Yet buried within it was a trace of an event so rare that scientists almost never find direct proof of it. A fossil found in Alabama captures a sudden, violent encounter between two massive marine predators. A broken tooth, still lodged in bone after 80 million years, reveals a strike that likely killed instantly. The fossil belongs to a Polycotylus, a lo... [1879 chars]

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