45-Million-Year-Old Crocodile Skull from Egypt Gets New Name: Herugavialis cairensis

Oct 7, 2026 - 16:45

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45-Million-Year-Old Crocodile Skull from Egypt Gets New Name: Herugavialis cairensis

The Sphinx was carved from the same rock formation that yielded the Herugavialis cairensis fossil, and both are missing the tip of the nose. Image credit: Karim Zanaty.

CT scans of a fossil found near Cairo show the animal was not a relative of the false gharial (Tomistoma schlegelii), as paleontologists long thought.

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