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[snout] / snaʊt /


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Based on comparisons with related species, researchers think Tanyka may have resembled a salamander with a slightly longer snout.

From Science Daily • May 1, 2026

Preserved in nearly perfect three-dimensional detail, the skeleton includes a skull with a huge eye socket and an elongated, sword-like snout.

From Science Daily • Feb. 24, 2026

Its long snout is reminiscent—perhaps not coincidentally—of early Jaguars.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026

The skull has an enormous eye socket and a long sword-like snout that it used to eat fish and squid.

From BBC • Oct. 9, 2025

He crossed his eyes, looking down his face, at where his dragony snout no longer stuck out.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack




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