Ancient Crocodile ''Missing Link'' Discovered

[davo]

An artist's rendering depicts the newly discovered prehistoric crocodile Montealtosuchus arrudacamposi.

Paleontologists at Federal University in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, say the land-bound reptile is a possible ''missing link'' to modern-day crocodiles.

"This is scientifically important because the specimen literally is the link between more primitive crocodiles that lived in the era of the dinosaurs—80 million to 85 million years ago—and modern species," said paleontologist Ismar de Souza Carvalho at a press conference yesterday.

more here http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/02/080201-AP-brazil-croc.html

 

[Vicious_Fish]

Yep, I just read this too! I want one Davo!

 

[davo]

you should get a job drawing them...

 

[Vicious_Fish]

Lol, you sound like my grandfather. He's constantly telling me to work for some movie or computer graphics company to design this kind of stuff. But thanks for the compliment.

 

[hamato_yoshii]

The artist rendering is the funniest part. You could give whatever bone fragment they found to 10 different artists and get 10 different drawings.

 

[Freeze_Dried_Bloodworm]

god bless scientists!

 

[davo]

The actual fossil link is in the link. I'd love to give a load of artists the skull of a modern animal and see what they come up with.

 

[Vicious_Fish]

The actual fossil link is in the link. I'd love to give a load of artists the skull of a modern animal and see what they come up with.

True that! Can you imagine what they would do with an Elephant skull if you never knew it had a trunk?

 

[hamato_yoshii]

The best one would be a penguin skeleton, I can't even imagine what they would come up with for that.