Crocodiles Were Very Different Before the Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs, New Research Says

Crocodiles are the prototypical cold-blooded creature.

Both figuratively and literally.

According to new research published in Paleobiology and detailed by its authors in The Conversation, crocodiles became literally cold-blooded in an effort to become more figuratively cold-blooded.

Scientists had always assumed that crocodiles had always been relatively slow-paced reptiles.

Meanwhile, some of their closest relatives, […]

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