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Scientists Discover 45-Million-Year-Old Crocodile With a Strange Connection to Egypt’s Great Sphinx


Fossils of a newly recognized Egyptian crocodile species come from the same rocks as the Great Sphinx, and a missing snout tip helped inspire the animal’s name.

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