Reconstructing ancient predator's skull from Scottish fossils.

Digital reconstructions of broken fossils have revealed more about the life of Crassigyrinus scoticus, an ancient crocodile-like predator that lived over 300 million years ago. Advances in CT scanning and 3D visualization have allowed researchers to piece together the fragments of the crushed fossils for the first time, revealing what Crassigyrinus's skull would have looked like. The resulting shallower skull shape agrees with a recent re-evaluation of the rest of Crassigyrinus' body, which found that it was a relatively flat-bodied animal with very short limbs.