'Weird' crocodile."Weird' crocodile The bone structure shows this to be the skull of an ancient crocodile, but the teeth look oddly mammalian. So the geologists who found this previously unseen head have dubbed it the "weird' crocodile. Louis L. Jacobs Louis L. Jacobs is an American vertebrate paleontologist who discovered Malawisaurus while on an expedition in Malawi. Much of his research concerns the interrelationships of biotic and abiotic events through time. of Southern Methodist University Southern Methodist University, at Dallas, Tex.; United Methodist; coeducational; chartered 1911. The school's facilities include laboratories for electron microscopy and stable isotopes, a museum of paleontology, and a graduate research center. in Dallas and Zefe Kaufulu of the University of Malawi The University of Malawi is an educational institution located in Zomba, in Southern Malawi. There are five colleges at the university, the largest of which is Chancellor College. The name of the school is abbreviated to UNIMA. in Africa picked up two of these skulls in southeast Africa in 1984, while looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. mammal fossils in northern Malawi. Kaufulu estimates their age at about 135 million years. The find is significant because so little is known about the evolution of reptiles or mammals in the Southern Hemisphere during that part of the Mesozoic era, Jacobs says. The scientists--whose work was funded primarily by the National Geographic Society--did not find mammal remains, but they intend to look again in the same area. "It would be silly to think that there weren't mammals living there at the same time,' Jacobs says. |
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