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Enlarge / Ground-penetrating radar map of the temple in the Roman city of Falerii Novi, Italy. L. Verconck Falerii Novi was once a walled town just north of Rome, likely founded around 241 BC as a relocation site for a Falisci tribe that had rebelled against the Romans. Located on …

This artist’s impression shows what the two-legged walking crocodiles might have looked like. Anthony Romilio We’re all pretty familiar with modern crocodiles and their low, four-legged stance. A set of mysterious fossilized footprints discovered in South Korea may rewrite what we know about the locomotion of some ancient cretaceous crocs. …