Crocodiles are the closest living relatives of dinosaurs (if we exclude birds). Surprisingly or not, they evolved from land animals, fact revealed for example by their longer hind limbs. The first crocodiles during the Triassic (early Mesozoic) even ran on two feet!
Now, a Brazilian team has described in a study published in the "Proceedings of The Royal Society B" a pointy-muzzled crocodile that could have dominated the seas together with the sharks some 62 million years ago, soon after the...
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