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Scientists Identify a New Crocodile Genus From the Rocks That Gave Us the Sphinx

A museum fossil revealed a new crocodile genus with a strange Sphinx connection: the same rock formation and a missing snout tip.

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A newly discovered 45 million-year-old fossilized crocodile skull has been classified by paleontologists as a whole new kind of crocodile genus that has been appropriately named after the Egyptian God Heru, the same god who likely inspired the design of the Great Sphinx.

According to a study published in Royal Society Open Science, Herugavialis cairensis shares more with the Great Sphinx than just a name. It was found in the same rock formation that the Great Sphinx was carved from. On top of that, the Great Sphinx is famously missing the tip of its nose, just as the newly discovered crocodile skull seems to be........

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