New crocodile species found in rocks of Egypt's Great Sphinx
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Herugavialis cairensis, a newly described extinct crocodile species, was identified from a skull discovered in the 1920s in Egypt's 45-million-year-old Mokattam Formation. The fossil, like the Great Sphinx itself, is missing the tip of its snout, inspiring its name after the Egyptian god Heru.
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