Scientists identified a new extinct crocodile species from the same Egyptian rocks used to build the Great Sphinx; even the fossil is missing the tip of its snout, echoing the monument

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According to a report published by Phys Org, the fossils were originally recovered during the 1920s from Egypt’s roughly 45-million-year-old Mokattam Formation