[NYTr] Bones of Giant Prehistoric Crocodile Found in Cuba

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Bones of Giant Prehistoric Crocodile Found in Cuba

Havana, Nov 20 (acn) 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.

The discovery was made by the Cuban Speleological Society's Group Sama.

In statements published in Escambray digital newspaper, the team leader 
Alejandro Romero Emperador said the samples are currently under study 
at the Instituto de Ecologia y Sistematica, of the Ministry of Science, 
Technology and Environment.

The remains of these pre-historic animals will be exhibited at the 
Museo de Naturaleza y el Hombre of Sancti Spiritus in December.

Other large fossils remain unidentified at the site of the discovery 
awaiting further excavation and research.