New research explains why crocodiles are relatively unchanged since dinosaur times – ZME Science

If you look around, you’ll see all sorts of dinosaur descendants, although we call them birds nowadays. But if you want to truly see a dinosaur-like creature, just like it would have roamed the Jurassic age 200 million years ago, just find a crocodile. While some of the species have died out (previous ancestors also consisted of giants as big as the dinosaurs, plant-eaters, fast runners, and serpentine forms that lived in the sea), a lot of what you see now is what you got then.
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