Scientists Discover 45-Million-Year-Old Crocodile With a Strange Connection to Egypt’s Great Sphinx

Fossils of a newly recognized Egyptian crocodile species come from the same rocks as the Great Sphinx, and a missing snout tip helped inspire the animal’s name. Crocodile fossils recovered in Egypt in the 1920s were initially grouped with a living long-snouted crocodile called the false gharial because of their outward resemblance. A new examination, [...]