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Carissa Wong

'Edward Scissorhands' creature that lived 230 million years ago discovered in Brazil

Artist impression of Venetorapter gassenae, which lived around 230 million years ago.  (Image credit: Caio Fantini)

An ancient reptile with massive hands and long, sword-like claws has been unearthed in southern Brazil. Its "hands and claws, which look a bit like those of Edward Scissorhands, may have been used to catch prey or climb trees," Rodrigo Müller, a paleontologist at the Federal University of Santa Maria in Brazil, told Live Science. 

Müller and his team discovered the reptile’s remains in a rice farm in the state of Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil.

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