Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Croc Update (Cuban Edition)

News from Cuba and the world. Bones of Prehistoric Crocodile Found in Cuba: "Havana, Nov 20.- The bones of a giant predatory crocodile that inhabited the earth during the Miocene Age were found in the Cayajana river, in the central Cuban province of Sancti Spiritus.

The bones corresponding to a 10-meter long crocodile that lived sometime between 23 and 5 million years ago were found on the river bank of the Cayajana, eroded by the waters of the Zaza reservoir, alongside bones of marine mammals such as dugongs, ancestors of the elephants."

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