Bronze Age Croc Connects the Gharial Dots and We Killed Them All
2,321Living crocodilians are all semi-aquatic predators represented only by 30 species. They are all adapted to hunt animals in or near the water with some adapted more for fish and others more for land animals that come to take a drink, while others still are more adapted to crack and crush through the tough armor of shelled or heavily built animals. This moderate diversity in modern crocodilians is restricted mostly to the teeth and the skull, but in the past crocodilians and members of the much broader group crocodylomorpha adapted to a much wider range of ecologies rivaling those now taken by mammals, amphibians, reptiles, and sometimes even birds. They are the best example of the inherent contradiction to the term, “living fossil.”
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Iijima M, Qiao Y, Lin W, Peng Y, Yoneda M, Liu J. 2022 An intermediate crocodylian linking two extant gharials from the Bronze Age of China and its humaninduced extinction. Proc. R. Soc. B 289: 20220085. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.0085
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