Supercroc [DVD]

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We had never seen anything like this. Using picks and brushes, we removed the rock fragments that covered the fossilized jaws. They were huge, but the animal that once wielded those jaws was not a dinosaur, but a colossal crocodile. We had gone looking for dinosaur bones in the Sahara's legendary fossil graveyard, a remote expanse of windswept rocks and dunes called Gadoufaoua, "the place where camels fear to tread" in Tamasheq, the language of the desert Tuareg. For fossil hunters it is paradise: the richest layers of dinosaur remains on the African continent. When we had just arrived an hour ago, we came face to face with an ancient crocodile that could have posed a serious threat to the dinosaurs there. The species was not new to science. French paleontologist Albert-Félix de Lapparent was the first to find some remains of this creature: conical teeth, vertebrae and shields (dorsal plates) 30 centimeters long.

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