An expedition in Kenya deliver the scientists to the discovery of new fossil species of giant crocodiles. This is probably the largest crocodile ever found on Earth.
This World's Largest Crocodile Ancient Humans Eat
The giant reptiles that lived in the waters of East Africa between 2-4 million years ago. Interestingly, these animals allegedly treated as kudapannya human ancestors.
Fossil specimens found were part of the body along the 7.5-meter crocodile. These giant animals could even grow to 8 feet long. This was stated by Christopher Brochu, associate professor of earth sciences from the University of Iowa.
Brochu was accidentally tripped over the fossil crocodile was three years ago, when examining fossils of the giant that is stored in the National Museum of Kenya in Nairobi. Previously, no one thought it was a pile of bones of the crocodile species that has never been found.So big, it takes great effort just four men to lift the skeleton of this animal, which was originally extracted from the Turkana Basin, an area around Lake Turkana in northern Kenya.
This region is known as a hotspot discovery of ancient human fossils. Hominid species, the human dwarf, previously also been lifted from the Turkana Basin. Brocu said, it is likely that dwarf human beings end up being a prehistoric crocodile food.
"Crocodiles that live side by side with the ancestors of humans, and most likely eat them," Brochu said in a statement published science site, LiveScience.
"Although we have not found human fossils are bitten by a crocodile, but alligators are larger than the species that exist today. While human-sized hominids is much smaller than human now, so most likely the crocodile did not bite but swallow it whole."
Crocodile Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni named, took the name of crocodile experts as well as colleagues Brochu, John Thorbjarnarson, who died of malaria in the field.
In 2010, Brochu also published a paper on the discovery of a horned man-eating crocodile from Tanzania called Crocodylus anthropophagus.Brochu and his team of research results published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology May 3, 2012.
The giant reptiles that lived in the waters of East Africa between 2-4 million years ago. Interestingly, these animals allegedly treated as kudapannya human ancestors.
Fossil specimens found were part of the body along the 7.5-meter crocodile. These giant animals could even grow to 8 feet long. This was stated by Christopher Brochu, associate professor of earth sciences from the University of Iowa.
Brochu was accidentally tripped over the fossil crocodile was three years ago, when examining fossils of the giant that is stored in the National Museum of Kenya in Nairobi. Previously, no one thought it was a pile of bones of the crocodile species that has never been found.So big, it takes great effort just four men to lift the skeleton of this animal, which was originally extracted from the Turkana Basin, an area around Lake Turkana in northern Kenya.
This region is known as a hotspot discovery of ancient human fossils. Hominid species, the human dwarf, previously also been lifted from the Turkana Basin. Brocu said, it is likely that dwarf human beings end up being a prehistoric crocodile food.
"Crocodiles that live side by side with the ancestors of humans, and most likely eat them," Brochu said in a statement published science site, LiveScience.
"Although we have not found human fossils are bitten by a crocodile, but alligators are larger than the species that exist today. While human-sized hominids is much smaller than human now, so most likely the crocodile did not bite but swallow it whole."
Crocodile Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni named, took the name of crocodile experts as well as colleagues Brochu, John Thorbjarnarson, who died of malaria in the field.
In 2010, Brochu also published a paper on the discovery of a horned man-eating crocodile from Tanzania called Crocodylus anthropophagus.Brochu and his team of research results published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology May 3, 2012.
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