Columbus State University News

CSU Professor Quoted About Crocodiles in USA Today

February 25, 2015

CSU professor David R. Schwimmer, professor of geology, was quoted in a USA Today story about new fossil discoveries that show many highly specialized crocodile relatives inhabited the same patch of territory 13 million years ago in what is now the western Amazon. Schwimmer, a vertebrate paleontologist, is an internationally regarded expert on a giant croc genus named Deinosuchus, which was prevalent in North America.

Read the full article online at http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/02/24/crocodiles-dinosaurs-lizards-prehistoric/23978299/.

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