Fossil footprints show some crocodile ancestors walked on two legs

Puzzling nearby tracks were likely also made by a bipedal croc ancestor, not a giant pterosaur

illustration of crocodile ancestors walking on two legs

About 106 million years ago, a large crocodile ancestor (shown here in an artist’s conception) walked on two legs in what is now South Korea, leaving behind a series of footprint impressions now preserved in the rock.

Anthony Romilio/The University of Queensland

Fossil tracks preserved in a South Korean rock formation are the first footprint evidence that some ancient ancestors of modern crocodiles walked on two legs.