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The evolution of crocodiles

16 September 2021

Dr Philip Mannion (UCL Earth Sciences) discusses the diversity of crocodiles and how they dominated life on land in the Triassic, before the rise of the dinosaurs in the Jurassic, and whose descendants are often described wrongly as ‘living fossils’.

Listen: BBC Radio 4’s ‘In our time’ (from 58 secs)