Scientists say the earliest long-snouted fossil crocodile, which was around 12 feet long, lived about 80 million years ago.
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Earliest long-snouted crocodile fossil from Egypt traces the African origins of marine crocs
Egyptian paleontologists have unearthed Wadisuchus kassabi, an 80-million-year-old fossil revealing Africa as the birthplace of seagoing crocodiles. T ...
Wadisuchus kassabi, an ancient crocodile from Egypt, shows crocodiles lived in the sea, offering insight into reptile evolution.
Researchers have recently uncovered fascinating new insights into the life and death of a mummified ancient Egyptian crocodile. A study published in the journal Digital Applications in Archaeology and ...
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 ...
Learn more about Wadisuchus kassabi, the crocodile’s ancient cousin that thrived in prehistoric oceans and rewrites this magnificent reptile's evolutionary history. Jenny Lehmann is an assistant ...
MANCHESTER, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by the University of Manchester, Lidija Mcknight of the University of Manchester and her colleagues analyzed a seven-foot-long Egyptian crocodile ...
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A team of archaeologists opened 2,500-year-old tombs in Egypt and were shocked to discover well preserved crocodile mummies.
In 2023, archaeologists from Spain and Egypt uncovered an extraordinary find at Qubbat al-Hawa, a necropolis near Aswan that ...
A crocodile that swam the Nile River thousands of years ago was found mummified in Egypt with a last meal still in its belly. Leon Pauleikhoff via Unplash At an oasis south of Cairo, Egypt, ...
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