Dinosaur May Have Been Stealth Hunter

Imagine a vacuum-like eating dinosaur!!! The remains of a peculiar looking creature with a three-foot long body and a neck of five and a half feet were found in China. This creature was an ocean dweller in its day, which happened to be about two hundred and thirty million years ago. The head of this creature was found in 2002, the body was recovered later and given the name, Dinocephalosaurus orientalis. This name affectionately means "terrible headed lizard from the Orient". With a name like this, one would imagine that this creature would have an awesome head, but this is not the case. This creature had a tiny little head. This of course was part of the master plan. The dinosaur had a different sort of neck than others similar to it; its neck had twenty-five vertebrae. This is double the expected amount. The reason for this is because the neck had rib-like bones in it. This is where the suction comes from. Due to the rib-like bones, the neck could expan and flattens out; this causes a tremendous inward suction. In the murky waters in which it lived the surrounding fish would have no clue that this little head in the distance was attached to a massive body and could suck them in. This is an amazing feeding technique!