'Missing Link' Croc Displayed in Brazil

February 1st, 2008 in Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
'Missing Link' Croc Displayed in Brazil (AP)

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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