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Museum drawer fossil reveals 200-million-year-old crocodile relative with a powerful bite
- April 15, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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The fossil record has given us another new prehistoric species, named Eosphorosuchus lacrimosa (from the Greek personification of the morning star—the planet Venus), a member of the group called Crocodylomorpha, which includes modern crocodiles. The bones had been sitting around in a museum drawer for three-quarters of a century and had been misidentified as another type of closely related reptile.
Originally published at Phys.org