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World's Oldest Marine Vegetarian Reptile Has a Hammerhead Mouth

By Jenn Loro - May 09, 2016 12:08 PM EDT

Scientists have recently discovered what they thought may have been the world’s oldest marine vegetarian reptile. First discovered in China in 2014, the crocodile-sized reptile had a hammerhead face with specialized yet bizarre-looking snout used for scraping algae on the ocean floor.

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