BoarCroc, RatCroc, DogCroc, DuckCroc and PancakeCroc

Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 11:35 in Paleontology & Archaeology

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 by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Paul Sereno. The five fossil crocs, three of them newly named species, are remains of a bizarre world of crocs that inhabited the southern land mass known as Gondwana some 100 million years ago.

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