Prestosuchus - Prestosuchus was a 5-metre-long Triassic predator living in Brazil. Prestosuchus had powerful legs...

Prestosuchus - Prestosuchus was a 5-metre-long Triassic predator living in Brazil. Prestosuchus had powerful legs that indicate that he was a fast runner. His closest relatives are Saurosuchus and Postosuchus. A 15-foot-long, 500 pound rauisuchian archosaur of the genus Prestosuchus wanders amidst cycads and ferns in swamp 230 million years ago in what is today Brazil. With long powerful legs, sharp teeth and a crocodile-like body, Prestosuchus was probably an ambush predator and likely a fast runner. In the foreground to the Prestosuchus 'left is a foot-long prehistoric amphibian known as a labyrinthodont