Thursday, January 26, 2006

in keeping with the awesome animal theme...

This is an "Effigia", an ancestor to the croc and alligator. not related at all to the dinosaur. it had no teeth, and is awesome.

"Scientists have discovered a fossil in New Mexico that looks like a sixfoot-long, two-legged dinosaur, but is actually an ancient relative of alligators and crocodiles." (full article here)

So the crocadile looked like a dinosaur 80 milion years before the dinosaurs looked like dinosaurs. pretty cool, huh?

1 comment:

J said...

Dinosaurs!