ANCIENT HISTORY

Scientists make stunning find from ‘lost’ croc-like fossil

The remains of an ancient marine amphibian that once stalked the WA coastline was first lost to time and then lost to a museum bungle.

Go back 252 million years to the Mesozoic era, the dawn of the age of dinosaurs, and what is now the searing desert of WA’s Kimberley region was the shore of a shallow bay at the edge of a vast prehistoric ocean.

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