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DNA solves 250-year-old mystery of the Seychelles’ lost crocodiles

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DNA solves 250-year-old mystery of the Seychelles’ lost crocodiles

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All Top News -- ScienceDaily•May 28

DNA solves 250-year-old mystery of the Seychelles’ lost crocodiles

For more than 250 years, stories from early explorers described crocodiles as a common sight along the shores of the Seychelles. "The founders of the Seychelles population must have drifted at least 3,000 kilometers across the Indian Ocean to reach the remote archipelago, perhaps even much further," says reptile expert Frank Glaw of the Bavarian State Collections of Natural History (SNSB) and senior author of the study.