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When you think of crocodiles, what comes to mind? Big jaws? Sharp teeth? A log-like body on four legs? It might surprise you, ...

In the Triassic, the modern animals we know were just beginning to diversify into a menagerie of forms and body plans that ...

A new toothless, tiny-armed, bipedal species has been found in New Mexico, dating from the late Triassic, about 237 to 201 ...

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Palaeontologists have described Labrujasuchus expectatus, a bipedal, beaked reptile from Ghost Ranch. The find shows how ...

Imagine a crocodile that would rather sprint than swim. It dashes over dry ground on long, slender legs like a reptilian greyhound. Instead of lurking in murky rivers, this Triassic predator moved ...

In the Western Desert of Egypt, an ancient crocodile-like species was found. Mihajlo Stojkovic via Unsplash During the era of the late Cretaceous, the land that now sits in modern-day Egypt was far ...

Kostensuchus atrox was a top predator which lived just before the extinction of the dinosaurs, and likely chomped on them A newly-discovered species of a large, crocodile-relative predator has been ...