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An international team of paleontologists, geologists, geoscientists and Earth scientists has found evidence that a type of ...
One of the largest crocodilians that ever lived preyed on dinosaurs. New research has found the fearsome Deinosuchus had a ...
Ancient giant crocodiles that rivaled dinosaurs once thrived in North America. A new study led by Hungarian researchers ...
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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNThe Ancient ‘Terror Crocodiles’ of North America Weren’t Alligators After All, DNA and Fossils SuggestA new study indicates the giant reptile Deinosuchus is not a close relative of modern alligators, as scientists previously ...
Deinosuchus had a wide snout like an alligator’s. But unlike alligators, it thrived in salty waters. It lived between 82 and ...
Scientists now say Deinosuchus was not an alligatoroid at all. Unlike its freshwater cousins, it retained the salt glands ...
The prehistoric crocodile relative may have tolerated both freshwater and saltwater habitats, allowing it to conquer North ...
Dwarfism in early alligatoroids was another clue that giant Deinosuchus was no ... of ecological flexibility among the extinct and living crocodiles,” she added. “This new paper really ...
Dwarfism in early alligatoroids was another clue that giant Deinosuchus was no ... of ecological flexibility among the extinct and living crocodiles,” she added. “This new paper really ...
Image: Márton Szabó Late Cretaceous interaction in the southwestern coastal wetlands of the Western Interior Sea-way: Deinosuchus ...
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