ND researchers hope to find complete croc skeleton

September 18, 2008 ND researchers hope to find complete croc skeleton (AP)

This photo taken on Wednesday Sept. 17, 2008 and released by the North Dakota Geological Survey, shows teeth and scutes from a 60-million-year-old crocodile fossil. Researchers are hoping a large cache of ancient crocodile bones in western North Dakota will yield the state's first complete croc skeleton. (AP Photo/North Dakota Geological Survey)

(AP) -- Researchers are hoping a large cache of ancient crocodile bones in western North Dakota will yield the state's first complete croc skeleton.

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