University of Texas-Austin: Tanks of the Triassic - New Crocodile Ancestor Identified
March 19, 2024
March 19, 2024
AUSTIN, Texas, March 19 (TNSres) -- The University of Texas issued the following news release:
Dinosaurs get all the glory. But aetosaurs, a heavily armored cousin of modern crocodiles, ruled the world before dinosaurs did. These tanks of the Triassic came in a variety of shapes and sizes before going extinct around 200 million years ago. Today, their fossils are found on every continent except Antarctica and Australia.
Scientists use the bony plates that make up aetosa . . .
Dinosaurs get all the glory. But aetosaurs, a heavily armored cousin of modern crocodiles, ruled the world before dinosaurs did. These tanks of the Triassic came in a variety of shapes and sizes before going extinct around 200 million years ago. Today, their fossils are found on every continent except Antarctica and Australia.
Scientists use the bony plates that make up aetosa . . .