Posted on July 24, 2011 at 10:11pm by Christopher Santarelli Print »Email »
A municipal worker in a small Brazilian town has unearthed croc bones 70-million-years-old. The crocodilian fossil with big teeth, long legs and fingers, and a doglike skull is now shedding light on the anatomy of a strange group of predators. Live Science’s Charles Q. Choi describes the beast:
“This croc almost certainly did not lurk like a log in a river like its modern relatives. ‘The rocks from the outcrop where we found the fossils, as well as those from other related areas, suggest a hot and considerably dry environment for the region dating back 70 million years,’ researcher Felipe Montefeltro, a paleontologist at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, told LiveScience"
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