Neither too hot nor too cold: Evolution of marine crocodilians constrained by ocean temperatures
Posted by Oceanography News -- ScienceDaily on 19 August, 2014
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The ancestors of today's crocodiles colonized the seas during warm phases and became extinct during cold phases, according to a new Anglo-French study which establishes a link between marine crocodilian diversity and the evolution of sea temperature over a period of more than 140 million years....