5 "Oddball" Crocs Discovered, Including Dinosaur-Eater:
National Geographic News
Paleontologist Paul Sereno (pictured and shown with BoarCroc, PancakeCroc, DuckCroc, RatCroc, and DogCroc.) scoured the harsh deserts of northern Africa since 2000 for evidence of a "lost world" of crocodilian ancestors.
"We knew about SuperCroc, the titan of all crocs, but we didn't have quite an idea of what existed in the shadows of the Cretaceous," Sereno said in reference to the oddball crocs his team describes in a November 2009 study.
November 19, 2009
ON TV When Crocs Ate Dinosaurs airs Saturday, November 21, at 9 p.m. ET/PT on the National Geographic Channel.
A 'saber-toothed cat in armor' and a pancake-shaped predator are among the strange crocodile cousins whose bones have been found beneath the windswept dunes of the Sahara, archaeologists say. (BoarCroc, PancakeCroc, DuckCroc, RatCroc, and DogCroc.)"
National Geographic News
Paleontologist Paul Sereno (pictured and shown with BoarCroc, PancakeCroc, DuckCroc, RatCroc, and DogCroc.) scoured the harsh deserts of northern Africa since 2000 for evidence of a "lost world" of crocodilian ancestors.
"We knew about SuperCroc, the titan of all crocs, but we didn't have quite an idea of what existed in the shadows of the Cretaceous," Sereno said in reference to the oddball crocs his team describes in a November 2009 study.
November 19, 2009
ON TV When Crocs Ate Dinosaurs airs Saturday, November 21, at 9 p.m. ET/PT on the National Geographic Channel.
A 'saber-toothed cat in armor' and a pancake-shaped predator are among the strange crocodile cousins whose bones have been found beneath the windswept dunes of the Sahara, archaeologists say. (BoarCroc, PancakeCroc, DuckCroc, RatCroc, and DogCroc.)"
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