13-million-year-old 'storyteller' crocodylian fossils show evidence for parallel evolution
Wednesday, April 20, 2016 - 13:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
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.