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Crocodiles' kinship with dinosaurs and how ancient crocodilians differed from modern ones

ONE'S OWN REPTILOIDS: LET US SETTLE ACCOUNTS. Crocodiles, like birds, are the closest living relatives of the dinosaurs. And if the appearance of birds has undergone startling changes over the millions of years, the bandy-legged, pot-bellied and goggle-eyed crocodiles look almost exactly as their ancestors

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Ancient Crocodiles: Simosuchus of Madagascar and Hoplosuchus kayi of Utah

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"But Are You Quite Sure You're a Diracodon?"

Bright yellow sulphur crystals on a greyish-beige porous rock against a black background.

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Sulphur crystals in a photograph from the Natural History Museum, London

Sulphur crystals. At school it looked far worse

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Ordered a splendid book; for anyone interested, here is the link: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/lost-animals-9781408172155/

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Tyrannosaur Tracks on Petrified Ground

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The Skull of a Young Tyrannosaur

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For comparison: on the left, the fang of a sabre-toothed tiger (properly, a smilodon); on the right, the tooth of a tyrannosaur

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The Lower Jaw of a Tyrannosaur

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Discovered a Relative of the Giant Sloth

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One of the Lost Tyrannosaur Teeth

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Pay attention to those very pelvic bones of the tyrannosaur

Pay attention to those very pelvic bones of the tyrannosaur. This one, specifically, is the skeleton of a stegosaur, offered for sale by a private palaeontological company for upwards of two million dollars