Armadillo-like Crocodile Fossil Found in Brazil

National Geographic News ^ | July 8, 2009 | John Roach

[decimon]

An ancient fossil crocodile coated in armadillo-like body armor was unveiled yesterday at an environmental museum in Brazil.

Dubbed Armadillosuchus arrudai, the newly described species of crocodile roamed the arid interior of Brazil about 90 million years ago, during the late Cretaceous period, scientists said.

It was 6.6 feet (2 meters) long, weighed about 265 pounds (120 kilograms), and had a relatively wide head with a narrow, toothy snout.

[decimon]

Crocodyliform ping

[allmost]

Bird eater?

[Bertha Fanation]

This last piece of the puzzle absolutely proves Darwinian evolution as the soup to nuts answer to all life’s riddles.

[decimon]

Bird eater?

Mostly chicken. I tried chickadee but it takes too many to make a meal.

[allmost]

Of course.

[mountainlion]

Mostly chicken. I tried chickadee but it takes too many to make a meal.

Kinda like Hummingbird cake.

[decimon]

This last piece of the puzzle absolutely proves Darwinian evolution as the soup to nuts answer to all life’s riddles.

Nothing does.

[hellbender]

What about four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie?

[decimon]

What about four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie?

What of the nose?

Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye.
Four and twenty blackbirds,
Baked in a pie.

When the pie was opened,
The birds began to sing;
Wasn't that a dainty dish,
To set before the king?

The king was in his counting house,
Counting out his money;
The queen was in the parlour,
Eating bread and honey.

The maid was in the garden,
Hanging out the clothes;
When down came a blackbird
And snapped off her nose.[1]

[hellbender]

Unlike any living crocodilian, it had the legs pulled into a near-vertical alignment to hold the body up off the ground, allowing mammal-like stance and locomotion. Very interesting critter.

[martin_fierro]

Yikesey Pikesey.

[decimon]

Yikesey Pikesey.

Makes you wish you could experience these critters, doesn't it?

[martin_fierro]

Makes you wish you could experience these critters, doesn't it?

Paleo Pitbull Ping.

[SunkenCiv]

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[RDTF]

“Body armor has never been “found in any other fossil or living crocodile species,”

I won’t touch that one

[Squidpup]

[SunkenCiv]

:’D ;’)

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