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CNN Headline: "'Terrible crocodile of Uberaba' unveiled: Fossil offers look at Earth's ecosystem of 70 million years ago"

Wow! That sounds interesting - it must have been huge to be called "Terrible Crocodile" right? Wrong. It was about 10 ft long, and smaller than many of today's crocodiles.

Now, I'm not one to tell paleontologists how to do their work, but this kind of name inflation has got to stop. Ok, the Titanosaurs really probably were some of the largest terrestrial animals ever, and Tyrannosaurus Rex can legitimately be recognized as a kind of King Tyrant Lizard just because it was one of the biggest carnivores of all time (although it may have been superceded by the carcharodontosaurines). But the Ultrasaurus turned out to be a lot smaller than it was originally thought (the "humerus" turned out to be a femur) and the Supersaurus vivianae, while big, would have been pounded into the dust by the larger titanosaurs.

My point? I forget. Anyway, Uberabasuchus terrificus wasn't so terrible, so get over yourselves.

References: The Dinosauricon