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Crocodile > Kitchen Counter
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21-01-2011 3:01pm#1A precious marine animal fossil has been found in a slab of rock destined to be someone's kitchen counter. (This is not the first time such a thing has happened.)
This time the fossils belonged to a type of sea going croc called Neptunidraco ammoniticus which belonged to the metriorhynchid family and lived in Italy during the mid Jurassic period. It was 4 meters long and is the oldest known member of it's group.
Read more here.
Side note: Anyone else noticing that national Geographic's website is getting very pop-up/spammy these days? It's really starting to put me off looking for news there.1
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