Ancient 'weirdo' reptile graduated from 4 legs to 2 in adolescence

A new start after 60: I’d had several careers but no degree – then I became a palaeontologist at 62

In search of a new adventure, Craig Munns went back to school. Now, at 65, he spends his days examining long-vanished life formsCraig Munns has a large model of a T rex on his desk. He got it with a magazine subscription two decades ago. One day, a few years ago, he was sitting in his study, which was dense with books and yellow sticky notes and posters charting evolution from single cells upward, and he thought, “What am I going to do next in m…

Ancient 'weirdo' reptile graduated from 4 legs to 2 in adolescence

Sonselasuchus cedrus, discovered in fossils from Arizona, was a crocodile relative from the Triassic period that grew into an ostrich-like adult