New crocodile species found fossilized in stone used to build Egypt’s Great Sphinx

Mongabay
Oct 6, 2026, 7:14 pm121 ptsTrending
About 45 million years ago in northern Egypt, a long-snouted crocodile hunted in the warm, shallow sea. Its bones settled into the same limestone formation that ancient Egyptians would later carry and carve into the Great Sphinx. Now, a century after researchers first dug up the fossils, they say the animal is…

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