Yale Basement Rediscovery: Triassic Proto-Croc Emerges as New Species After 75 Years
Northern New Mexico’s Ghost Ranch yielded a remarkable fossil in 1948 amid a mass of dinosaur bones, but the specimen languished in Yale University’s Peabody Museum basement for decades. Researchers recently confirmed it belonged to a previously unknown relative of modern crocodiles, named Eosphorosuchus lacrimosa. This finding illuminates the early evolutionary steps of crocodylomorphs toward ...












