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5 "Oddball" Crocs Discovered, Including Dinosaur-Eater

source: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/11/091119-dinosaurs-crocodiles-missions.html

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BoarCroc was a 20-foot-long (6.1-meter-long) "saber-toothed cat in armor" that ate dinosaurs for dinner.

The creature is among five ancient crocodile cousins discovered beneath the windswept dunes of the Sahara, archaeologists said in November 2009.

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    • Bones from a menagerie of ancient crocodile cousins, including the rodent-like RatCroc (pictured eating a grub in a computer-generated image), have been discovered beneath the windswept dunes of the Sahara.

      The snub-nosed RatCroc, which had buckteeth for rooting through the ground after tubers or simple animals, is among five early crocodile cousins that ruled Gondwana--a landmass that later broke up into the southern continents--about a hundred million years ago, archaeologists say.

      "There's an entire croc world brewing in Africa that we really had only an inkling about before," said Paul Sereno, a paleontologist at the University of Chicago and leader of a new study published today in the journal ZooKeys.

      Steve Irwin is having the time of his existence..........

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