These Crocs Were Made for Chewing?
Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:34:00 -0500
Paleontologists scouring a river bank in Tanzania have unearthed a previously unknown crocodile from 105-million-year-old, mid-Cretaceous rock in the Great East African Rift System.
The discovery of a relatively lanky, cat-sized animal with mammal-like teeth and a land-based lifestyle supports a growing consensus that crocodiles were once far more diverse than they are today, dominating ecological niches in the Southern Hemisphere during the Cretaceous Period that were filled in the ...
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