New discoveries in the Dominican Republic suggest sebecids roamed the Caribbean as recently as 4.5 million years ago, long ...

Knife-toothed reptiles called sebecids went extinct on the mainland 10 million years ago. New fossil evidence puts them on an island 4 million years ago.

These vertebrae were flat, like those of sebecids, rather than having the ball-and-socket joints of other crocodile relatives. The researchers’ findings, published last week in Proceedings of ...

The existence of any prehistoric apex predators in the islands of the Caribbean used to be doubted. While their absence would have probably made it even more of a paradise for prey animals, fossils ...

Paleontologists have identified the remains of a sebecid, a massive, greyhound-like crocodile that survived well after the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs. A Breakthrough Discovery The sebecid, an ...

After the demise of the dinosaurs following an asteroid strike 66 million years ago, mammals became Earth's dominant land ...

Imagine a crocodile built like a greyhound — that’s a sebecid ... Then a research team in 2023 found a tooth as well as two vertebrae. The fossils matched those of other sebecids. The finding showed ...

Three decades ago, scientists began to find razor-sharp teeth from predators that had no business being there.

Imagine a crocodile built like a greyhound ... said Jonathan Bloch, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Florida Museum of Natural History. This initial confusion was warranted.

Most vertebrate skin appendages—hair, feathers ... thus regulating the growth of precursors from which skin appendages can grow. The scales on a crocodile’s body develop through this mechanism. About ...

While crocodiles and lizards have their legs sticking out from the body at right angles ... Largely ignored due to its scrappy nature, the fossil is composed of part of an arm bone plus a few ...

Ancient Egyptians regularly mummified crocodiles in elaborate ceremonies in dedication to their crocodile god Sobek. A study of one of these crocodiles reveals details about the animal’s death ...