Paleontologists Discover New Species Of Crocodiles That Laid Thickest Eggs Ever

Madrid: Paleontologists of Spain’s University of Zaragoza have found a new species of crocodile, which coexisted with the last dinosaurs from the past and laid the thickest eggs ever known.

According to a report in Newsweek, these crocodile’s eggshells were found in the Ribagorza region of the Huesca province in northeastern Spain by paleontologists who were working at the NOVA University Lisbon and the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution.

In the study, the researchers have described the detailed process of locating more than 300 eggshell fragments found near Biascas de Obarra in the Huesca municipality of Beranuy.

The University of Zaragoza told Zenger News in a statement, “The fragments found correspond to the thickest crocodile shells that have been found in the fossil record worldwide. Its discovery increases the paleontological wealth of the Ribagorza region and reaffirms its importance worldwide to study the end of the Cretaceous extinction.”

According to the experts, the eggshells trace its origins to the Upper Cretaceous era, and the “fragments were part of the eggs laid by crocodiles that lived with the last Iberian dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous,” Newsweek further said.