A 7-million-year-old fossil in Peru has shed new light on the origin of crocodiles, giving palaeontologists more clues as to how the creatures evolved into what they are today.
The prehistoric crocodile fossil found in Peru has given an insight into how all freshwater creatures in the Andean country first came to land from the sea.
According to a Peruvian research team that analysed jaw and skull remains of the species, the animal likely would have probably crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the coast of South America.
