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a rather lovely original skull of a
champsosaur, the "crocodile lizard" which is the perfect name for this critter. despite its crocodilian appearance, champsosaurs were a type of lizard like reptile that independantly reentered the water and evolved very similar characteristics to crocs. a perfect example of convergent evolution, where two animals living the same life style tend to evolve similar (but yet subtley different) means of living that same life.
2 comments:
How strange that convergent evolution was taking place even back then when vertebrate animals seemed to first begin evolving.
The fossil looks lovely, looks like quite a precise predator.
Marco.
interesting convergence
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