Galloping, dinosaur-eating crocodile fossils found in Sahara

How is THIS for a nightmarish critter?

Or THESE?

Fossil hunters have uncovered the remains of primitive crocodiles that “galloped” on land and patrolled the broad rivers that coursed through north Africa one hundred million years ago.

The skeletons of five creatures that walked with dinosaurs – and ate them – were unearthed in remote and rocky regions of what are now Morocco and Niger during a series of expeditions in the Sahara desert.

Three of the crocodiles are new species and include Kaprosuchus saharicus, a 6.5m-long beast with three sets of dagger-like tusks and an armoured snout for ramming its prey.

The meter-long “DuckCroc” had a wide, overhanging snout containing sensory areas that it used to sniff out prey in shallow waters.

Most of the fossils were found near the site where, in 2001, Sereno uncovered a 12m-long crocodile that lived 110m years ago. The beast, nicknamed SuperCroc, weighed around eight tons.
Sereno in the jaws of SuperCroc, holding the fossil head of DogCroc.