Paleontologists have identified a two-legged, beak-mouthed reptile from New Mexico that looked uncannily like a small ostrich dinosaur — except it lived more than 100 million years before dinosaurs evolved that body plan, and belonged instead to the crocodile side of the family tree

Daniel Moran

Evolution stumbled onto the same brilliant design twice—but the crocodile ancestor got there first, 100 million years before dinosaurs.