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The Nutcracker Croc of Cretaceous Texas

The Arlington Archosaur Site doesn’t fit the traditional vision of a remote fossil deposit situated in rocky, windswept badlands. Rich in turtle, crocodile, fish, and dinosaur remains, the assemblage is within walking distance of a Starbucks in the Arlington, Texas metro area. But those fossils tell of a very different time – a snapshot of [...]
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Armadillosuchus, Brazilian Cretaceous Croc

Biology / Paleontology : The Dragon's Tales (4 years ago)

Fossils found in Brazil are from a crocodile resembling a large armadillo that was a predator in the area around modern-day Sao Paulo state 90 million years ago, researchers said on Tuesday.The 6.6-foot-long (two-meter-long), 265-lb... Read Post

Mexican Cretaceous Sea Turtle Fossil Found

Biology / Paleontology : The Dragon's Tales (4 years ago)

Paleontologists on Thursday unveiled the oldest fossil remains of a sea turtle that lived 72 million years ago in northern Mexico, the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) said."It is the oldest sea turtle of its ki... Read Post

Most Complete Fossil of a Crocodylotarsian found in Brazil

Biology / Paleontology : Everything Dinosaur (3 years ago)

Ancient Crocodile Ancestor Fossils Discovered in Brazil The Archosaurs, the group of reptiles that the Dinosaurs and Pterosaurs evolved from originated in the late Palaeozoic.  However, after the mass extinction...... Read Post


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