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torsdag, november 25, 2010

Scientists Discover 100-Million-Year-Old Crocodile Species

"They were living on land and could run very fast."


Scientists in Thailand have discovered a new species of crocodile from fossils believed to be more than 100 million years old, the Associated Press reports. The six-inch long fossils suggests that the species had longer legs than today's crocodiles, and that "They were living on land and could run very fast," said Komsorn Lauprasert, a scientist at Mahasarakham University. The fossil was found in 2006, but researchers only recently determined that it was a previously undiscovered species. The find is the latest from "Thailand's so-called dinosaur belt," which has been a treasure trove for paleontologists since the late 1970s.

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