[Lee Stewart]

Let's turn the clock back by millions of years to a time when crocodiles as long as buses lived in the Americas. A new study of Deinosuchus fossils has revealed more details of what these mind-boggling predators looked like and how they behaved.

Deinosuchus, which can be translated as "terrible crocodile" or "terror crocodile," ate dinosaurs, notes a paper published in late July in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. The massive animals lived between 75 million and 82 million years ago and would have been at the top of the food chain. They had teeth the size of bananas