An ancient skull hints crocodiles swam from Africa to the Americas
Features of a fossil from what’s now Libya tie the animal closely to its extant American kin
![Crocodylus checchiai illustration](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/072220_CW_croc_feat.jpg?fit=1028%2C579&ssl=1)
Like its American relatives, Crocodylus checchiai (illustrated) sported a bump on its snout.
Dawid A. Iurino