Great Sphinx rocks reveal new species of crocodile

The National ·
United Arab Emirates

Fossils recovered a century ago in the rocks that make up the 45-million-year-old Mokattam Formation in Egypt have revealed a new species of crocodile. The rocks, used to build the Great Sphinx , contained the skull of a crocodile, missing only the tip of its snout. It has been named Herugavialis cairensis. “Given this coincidence with the famously missing nose of the Great Sphinx, we decided to…

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