<![CDATA[Crocodiles can't fly. Birds can. Scientists have finally figured out why]]>

<![CDATA[Crocodiles can't fly. Birds can. Scientists have finally figured out why]]>cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/71626

The closest living relatives of crocodiles and alligators are, perhaps surprisingly, birds. Both are archosauriforms, a group of species that originated about 250 million years ago near the beginning of the Triassic period.

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