Paleontologists have discovered in North Carolina remains of a giant ancient proto-crocodile, Caroline butcher, whose ancestors were the main top predators of the New World in the Triassic period, long before the coming of the back of the dinosaurs, according to a paper published in the journal Scientific dinosaurs Reports.
The fossils of this period are extremely important for paleontology, as they allow us to learn about how there were also developed the first krokodiloobraznye reptiles and carnivorous dinosaurs. Both of these groups only started their evolutionary path in the Triassic and managed to survive until today in the form of crocodiles and birds. Read the rest of this entry »
The capital of Portugal, Lorinyane found the most complete skeleton of a dinosaur in the world. This was stated by Portuguese paleontologist Octavio Mateus . Age finds is 150 million years old . This is the whole dinosaur in Portugal and one of the most complete in the world, – says the researcher Lourinha Museum and the New University of Lisbon Octavio Mateus . 
