Ancient Crocodile Relative Built for Speed Found in England
A 215-million-year-old crocodylomorph fossil unearthed in Gloucestershire has been identified as a new genus and species, Galahadosuchus jonesi, revealing a slender, upright, cursorial predator built for land speed rather than swimming and expanding our view of Late Triassic crocodile diversity ahead of the Triassic–Jurassic extinction.