Imagine a crocodile built like a greyhound—that's a sebecid. Standing tall, with some species reaching 20 feet in length, they dominated Sou
Imagine a crocodile built like a greyhound—that's a sebecid. Standing tall, with some species reaching 20 feet in length, they dominated South American landscapes after the extinction of dinosaurs until about 11 million years ago. Or at least, that's what paleontologists thought, until they began finding strange, fossilized teeth in the Caribbean. "The first question that we had when these teeth were found in the Dominican Republic and on other islands in the Caribbean was: What are they?" said Jonathan Bloch, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Florida Museum of Natural History.
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