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Thousands of Volunteers Work Together to Rebuild a Huge Prehistoric Predator Skeleton

More than two thousand volunteers are joining scientists to restore the massive skeleton of Mastodonsaurus.

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2,000+ volunteers participate.

Restoring a massive Mastodonsaurus skeleton.

Lived 240 million years ago in the Triassic.

Underwater ambush predator of fish and amphibians.

Project advances knowledge of ancient life.

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Mastodonsaurus lived around 240 million years ago in the Middle Triassic period and was an underwater ambush hunter.

The animal fed on fish and smaller amphibians, using surprise attacks.

The restoration project helps researchers understand ancient ecosystems and how such predators lived.

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volunteers

people who give their time to help

painstaking

very careful and takes a lot of effort

restore

to fix and put back together

massive

very big

skeleton

the bones of an animal

prehistoric

from a time before written history

predator

an animal that hunts other animals

Mastodonsaurus

a huge ancient animal that lived in water

Triassic

a very old time period millions of years ago

ambush

to hide and surprise the food

amphibians

animals like frogs that can live in water and on land

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