Best of 2009 - Thursday, November 19, 2009 16:08 - 9 Comments

BEST OF 2009: Bizarre band of paleo-crocs

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)

U. CHICAGO (US)/MCGILL (CANADA)—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…