Re: Evidence of Huge Ancient Crocodile Found

[Jeff Hecht <jeff@jeffhecht.com>]

My take is at 

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8298

It is properly a crocodyliform, not a crocodile. The skull is VERY strange for 
a croc. According to the scientists speaking at the press conference, the 
critter didn't have quite that many teeth, and wasn't really leaping at the 
pterosaur in the picture with my article -- it was supposed to be annoyed with 
the pterosaur bothering it while it was eating an ichthyosaur.

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