The
largest ever sea-dwelling crocodile has been uncovered in Tunisia. It was
longer than a great white shark and its skull was as big as a person
By
Melissa Hogenboom 14 January 2016
A new
species of a marine-dwelling crocodile has been discovered in Tunisia in
northern Africa.It lived about 130 million years ago, at the start of a period
called the Cretaceous. At the time dinosaurs dominated the land and huge
reptiles ruled the seas.The
beast has been given the appropriate moniker Machimosaurus rex,
which translates as "fighting lizard-king". It was over 30ft
(10m) long, about the size of a large bus. Its skull alone was over 5ft (1.6m)
long.
Read
rest see illustrations here:http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160114-found-an-ancient-crocodile-as-long-as-a-bus
Whenever there
are new discoveries it means there is more to discover which gives hope to the
idea of cryptids being discovered.
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