“His excited shout brought the team together, marking the beginning of an extraordinary discovery: a nearly complete skull of an ancient apex carnivore, a dream for any vertebrate paleontologist.

Rome, Italy - February 14, 2025 The basilica of Santa Maria di Cosmedin, famous for the Mouth of Truth, houses a skull attributed to Saint Valentine, adorned with flowers and kept in a golden box.

and something that we were able to observe directly from this new skull was it had jaw musculature (that) was associated with snapping its mouth shut underwater in pursuit of fish. And that is a ...