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What a toothless, two-legged crocodile cousin reveals about life before dinosaurs dominated

In the Triassic, the modern animals we know were just beginning to diversify into a menagerie of forms and body plans that rhyme with the lifestyles of extinct and living animals better known to the public, but nested in groups that ended up taking wildly divergent paths. Case in point: Labrujasuchu...

What a toothless, two-legged crocodile cousin reveals about life before dinosaurs dominated
Image: Phys.org
In the Triassic, the modern animals we know were just beginning to diversify into a menagerie of forms and body plans that rhyme with the lifestyles of extinct and living animals better known to the public, but nested in groups that ended up taking wildly divergent paths. Case in point: Labrujasuchus expectatus.

Originally published at Phys.org

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