20 Feet Long: Giant Croc-Like Predator Discovered in the Caribbean

Fossils reveal that sebecids, long-extinct land predators, survived far longer in the Caribbean than previously thought, rewriting ancient ecological history. Imagine a crocodile built like a greyhound — that’s a sebecid. Standing tall, with some species reaching up to 20 feet in length, they dominated the South American landscape after the extinction of the dinosaurs, [...]

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