It's a Croc

Eye of the Croc   (Photo by Alias 0591) 

Imagine examining an ancient relic and discovering that it’s way more a croc than a crock.

This occurred rather recently when a “150-million-year-old fossilized skeleton” was analyzed by the Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences.  It was determined to be from a key ancestor of today’s crocodiles.

Crocs were originally smaller land animals.  It took a “few million years” for them to prefer living in water.  This transition is thought to have begun in what is now South America, due to the presence of shallow warm seas.

Resources

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/money/tech-and-science/modern-crocodiles-grandfather-150-million-years-old-discovered-in-chile-fossil/ar-AAMvIK3?ocid=uxbndlbing

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