Sentences with phrase «called apex predators»
Finds such as the newly discovered Birgeria species and the fossils of other vertebrates now show that so - called apex predators (animals at the very top of the food chain) already lived early after the mass extinction.
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It was still living in fear of other, more primitive carnivorous dinosaurs called allosaurs, which were the apex predators of the day.
Great news for marine animals: an enormous area around Cocos Island, also called «Shark Island» for it's high population of the apex predators, is now a safe haven for species from hammerhead sharks to leatherback turtles.