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- Researchers have discovered footprints of an ancient species from the crocodile family that walked upright on two legs.
- These creatures may have looked a bit like dinosaurs, but they weren't.
- The tracks date back 110 million years, and since we don't see these animals around today we can only guess when and why they were wiped off the planet.
Crocodiles and their close brethren are often referred to as "modern dinosaurs" because we know that some species that are still around today are near mirror images of their ancestors. They found a formula that worked and they stuck with it over millions and millions of years. But not all branches of the crocodile family tree resulted in long-term success, and a new discovery in South Korea suggests that one offshoot evolved to walk on two legs like the dinosaurs of the day.
The research, which was published in Scientific Reports, is based on nearly 100 individual footprints of an ancient crocodile species that have been preserved in rock from 110 million years ago. At first, the researchers assumed the tracks were made by one of the many dinosaurs that walked upright, but now they believe they were actually created by a crocodile whose arms never touched the ground.
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