This ancient crocodile looked kind of like a dolphin

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This ancient crocodile looked kind of like a dolphin
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ArticleBody:A set of 135 million-year-old fossils, once thought lost during World War II, are now accounted for and analyzed. According to a study published July 18 in the Journal of Systematic Paleontology, a team of international researchers from Germany and the UK has determined the “well preserved” skull and first neck vertebrae are from what they now call Enalioetes schroederi.

Experts initially believed the fossils belonged to an undetermined type of ichthyosaur, but eventually realized they were from a wholly separate creature. From there, however, details get murky. For decades, paleontologists believed the fossils were lost during Berlin’s destruction in World War II. Later, however, it was revealed Schroeder returned the specimens to their original finder, D.

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