An international research team has been stunned to discover that some crocodile-like reptiles walked on their hind legs like dinosaurs and measured over three metres in length.
University of Queensland palaeontologist Dr Anthony Romilio said the researchers first thought the similar-shaped fossilised footprints were from another ancient animal known as the pterosaurs.
“At one site, the footprints were initially thought to be made by a giant bipedal pterosaur walking on the mudflat, we now understand that these were bipedal crocodile prints,” Dr Romilio said.
“The footprints measure around 24 centimetres, suggesting the track-makers had legs about the same height as human adult legs.
“These were long animals that we estimate were over three metres in length.
“And while footprints were everywhere on the site, there were no handprints.”
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