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• This computer illustration released by the Federal University on Jan. 31 shows four views of what Brazilian scientists say is a prehistoric crocodile that is the missing link between prehistoric and modern-day crocodiles. The illustration is based on an 80 million year-old fossil of a lizard-like terrestrial predator dubbed 'Montealtosuchus arrudacamposi' which was found in Monte Alto, Sao Paulo state.
• Jan. 31: A scientist holds a prehistoric crocodile fossil after a press conference at the Federal University in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian scientists displayed the fossil which they say is the missing link between prehistoric and modern-day crocodiles.
• An artist's illustration of a couple of the long-limbed crocodiles scampering around with dinosaurs 80 million years ago.
• An artist's illustration of Montealtosuchus arrudacamposi alive, with limbs remarkably longer and more mammalian-looking than those of modern crocodilians.
• Jan. 31: Brazilian paleontologist Antonio Celso de Arruda Campos holds the fossil of a prehistoric crocodile after a press conference at the Federal University in Rio de Janeiro.
• Jan. 31: The skull, spine and one shoulder bone of Montealtosuchus arrudacamposi on display at the Federal University in Rio de Janeiro, with a model of the living creature in the background.

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