How the Sphinx is helping answer a riddle about extinct crocodiles

My colleagues and I discovered a new species of extinct crocodile from a fossil found in the same rocks used to carve the Great Sphinx of Giza. Today, there are only two species of the long-snouted gavial crocodile, both of which are endangered: Gavialis gangeticus and Tomistoma schlegelii. They are found only in freshwater environments […]

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