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Scientists Discover Ancient 13-Foot-Long Crocodile Relative in Egypt
A newly identified fossil species, Wadisuchus kassabi, dating to the Campanian period (about 80 million years ago), extends the evolutionary history of Dyrosauridae and underscores Egypt’s Western Desert as an important center for early marine crocodile evolution. In Egypt’s Western Desert, where layers of red sandstone and green shale emerge from the dry plains of [...]