New crocodile species found fossilized in stone used to build Egypt’s Great Sphinx
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“Researchers identified a new species of extinct long-snouted crocodile from 45-million-year-old fossils discovered within the same limestone formation used to construct the Great Sphinx. The fossils had been misidentified for decades after being excavated in the 1920s.”
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