Scientists ID 'largest sea crocodile'

(ANSA) - Bologna, January 11 - A skeleton found in 2014 near the Tunisian city of Tataouine belonged to the largest sea crocodile that ever existed, paleontologists at Bologna University said Monday.
    The skeleton dating to 130 million years ago belonged to a crocodile scientists named Machimosaurus rex, which measured 10 meters in length and weighed about three tonnes. It survived extinction at the end of the Jurassic era and survived through to the Cretaceous period that followed, the paleontologists said. This means the skeleton might hold precious information about the transition between the two eras.