Tag Archive for 'Crocodilian'

Life reconstructions of extinct crocodyliforms. Differences in tooth shape are related to differences in diets. Image credit: Jorge Gonzalez.

Some Extinct Relatives of Living Crocodylians Were Vegetarians

Jun 28, 2019 by News Staff

A veggie diet arose in extinct crocodyliforms — the distant cousins of living crocodylians (alligators, caimans, crocodiles, and gharials) —...

The skull of Gryposuchus pachakamue, a proto-Amazonian gavialoid from the Miocene lakes and swamps of the Pebas Mega-Wetland System, in dorsal, ventral, and lateral view. Scale bar - 5 cm. Image credit: Salas-Gismondi R. et al.

Discovery of Miocene Crocodilian Suggests Parallel Evolution of Protruding Eyes

Apr 21, 2016 by News Staff

Fossils of a 13-million-year-old extinct gavialoid crocodilian from the Peruvian Amazon suggest that South American and Indian gavialoids evolved separately...