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April 28, 2016

Ancient crocodylian fossils show evidence for parallel evolution
London, UK (SPX) Apr 26, 2016
The 13-million-year-old fossils of an extinct crocodylian, named 'the storyteller,' suggest that South American and Indian species evolved separately to acquire protruding, 'telescoped' eyes for river-dwelling, according to a study published April 20, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi from the University de Montpellier, France, and colleagues. The gavialoids are a diversified group of mostly extinct long-snouted crocodylian species. Many of the evolutionary relatio ... read more

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