'Missing Link' Croc Displayed in Brazil
February 1st, 2008 BY STAN LEHMAN, Associated Press Writer
This computer illustration released by the Federal University on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2008, shows four views of what Brazilian scientists say is a prehistoric crocodile that is the missing link between prehistoric and modern-day crocodiles. The illustration is based on an 80 million year-old fossil of a lizard-like terrestrial predator dubbed "Montealtosuchus arrudacamposi" which was found in Monte Alto, Sao Paulo state. (AP Photo/Federal University)
(AP) -- The 80 million-year-old remains of a land-bound reptile described as a possible link between prehistoric and modern-day crocodiles were displayed to the public for the first time on Thursday.
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