Tens of millions of years before the first human eye beheld a river, a creature the length of a city bus patrolled the meeting places of fresh and salt water across a continent now unrecognizable to us. New research published in Communications Biology reveals that Deinosuchus, the great crocodilian predator of the Late Cretaceous, possessed a saltwater tolerance lost to all its living descendants — a biological inheritance that allowed it to range freely across the vast inland seaway that once divided North America. In tracing this vanished capacity, scientists illuminate not only a single spe
Scientists reveal how giant prehistoric crocodile dominated Cretaceous seas
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