Sinuses prevented prehistoric crocodile relatives from deep diving, paleobiologists suggest

Sinuses prevented prehistoric crocodile relatives from deep diving, paleobiologists suggest

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain An international team of paleobiologists have found that the sinuses of ocean-dwelling relatives of modern-day crocodiles prevented them from evolving into deep divers like whales and dolphins. A new paper published today in Royal Society Open Science suggests that thalattosuchians, which lived at the time of the dinosaurs, were stopped from … Read more