With its elongated, crocodile-like skull ... site within the Santa Maria Formation in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, an area known for preserving some of the most significant Triassic fossils in ...

Researchers in Brazil have discovered the fossilized bones of Retymaijychampsa beckerorum, a 237-million-year-old crocodile-like predator. This significant find sheds light on early reptile ...

Researchers in Brazil have unearthed the fossilized bones of a crocodile-like predator that lived 237 million years ago, offering a fascinating glimpse into Earth's distant past. This ancient ...

This story appears in the July 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. If you noticed them at all, they’d look like nothing more than tiny, windblown seeds floating amid the rushes at the ...