L2CP2 10 доисторических хищников, охотившихся на крупнейших морских обитателей

10 Prehistoric Predators That Hunted the Largest Animals in the Ocean In eighteen ninety-nine, a Russian palaeontologist named Alexander Karpinsky received a set of fossils pulled from the Ural Mountains that he could not explain. The specimens were unlike anything previously catalogued from any geological period. They were not bones, not scales, not the flattened impressions of ancient tissue. They were tight, perfectly formed spirals of teeth, coiling inward like a watch spring from the natural world's deepest, strangest chapter. Karpinsky had no skull to study, no vertebrae, no fin. He had only the spiral, and the spiral was enough to confirm that something extraordinary had once lived in the Permian sea.