Me being the nutty doctor that I am, with a geekish like of all things dinosaur and geologically past (as I’ve said once before, where better to get wild and crazy ideas for monsters?), I came across an article in one of my geeky science magazines on some new species of Mesozoic crocodiles.

The one that really caught my eye was this beastie:

It’s called a ‘BoarCroc’ and it lived in the wetlands of the Sahara about 100 million years ago. Nasty looking fella, right?

This chap stood upright and would’ve been about 6 meters long, with 3 sets of fangs that jutted above and below his snout when it was closed. The BoarCroc has been described as ‘rough and tumble,’ and as ‘a sabre-tooth cat in armour.’ It would have also feasted on dinosaurs that came to waterholes to drink, charging up on land to get them.

This thing is awesome–but I’m glad it’s extinct…