By | Published: 3:49 pmParis: The several species of crocodiles plying rivers and brackish byways in the Americas — from Florida to Peru — all came from Africa, according to a study published on Thursday. They may have descended, researchers speculate, from a single pregnant specimen that bobbed along Atlantic Ocean currents to the New World at least five million years ago, probably longer. “This is a really exciting discovery,” lead authors Massimo Delfino from the University of Turin and Dawid Iurino, a palaeontologist at Sapienza University in Rome, said. It belonged to an extinct species called Crocodylus checchiai. “Our results are solid,” the researchers said when asked if the evidence was conclusive.

Source: Libya Today July 23, 2020 20:48 UTC