Past Time

News Bite: Crazy croc diversity in the ancient Amazon!


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In a study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi and other paleontontologists described the crocodiles from a gigantic wetland that predated the Amazon. Ten million years ago there was the giant Purussarus, the duck-billed Mourasuchus, the tube-snouted gharial-like croc, a coyote-like croc similar to Paleosuchus, and three new crocs with […]
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Past TimeBy Matt Borths, Adam Pritchard, Catherine Early

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