Paleontologists Paul Sereno and Hans Larsson excavate the fossil skull of a 100-million-year-old croc in Niger. The animal, which they nicknamed BoarCroc, was one of several crocs that inhabited a lost world now buried in the sands of the Sahara. (Credit: Mike Hettwer/National Geographic)
CHICAGO/MCGILL—A suite of five ancient crocs, including one with teeth-like boar tusks and another with a snout like a duck’s bill, have been discovered in the Sahara. Continue…
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