Two hundred and twelve million years before the present, in what is now New Mexico, a beaked, toothless, two-legged relative of crocodiles moved through a world still finding its shape. Paleontologists have named and described this creature, revealing that the crocodilian family tree once branched in directions far stranger than the armored river predators we know today. The discovery asks us to reconsider the Triassic not as a prologue to the age of dinosaurs, but as its own chapter of radical biological invention — a time when the question of how to be a reptile had many more answers than it
Toothless, Two-Legged Crocodile Cousin Discovered in Triassic New Mexico
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