Scientists Uncover Fossils Belonging to New Reptile Species in Central Wyoming

Is it a crocodile? A bird?

Technically, it’s a species of rhynchosaur, a distant relative of modern birds and crocodiles with a beak-like mouth that existed over 200 million years ago – the fossils of which scientists unearthed from the exposed rocks of the Popo Agie Formation tucked in the northern Rocky Mountains in central Wyoming.