# @natgeosociety on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DdHo94mo0VS
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/70366086-natgeosociety-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-09-10T19:57:54.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** National Geographic Society (@natgeosociety) — https://gondola.cc/natgeosociety

## Caption

“It was a dog eat dog world after the extinction of the dinosaurs, but one group that thrived were crocodilians,” shared #NatGeoExplorer Tyler Lyson, curator at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.

A new study describes a new crocodilian, Mandrasuchus milleri, from nearly 65.5 million year old rocks in Colorado. Mandrasuchus milleri is about 5 feet (1.5 meters) long, has broadly rounded jaws with low bulbous teeth, and is a relative to modern alligators and caimans. The species was named after Ian Miller, Chief Science and Innovation Officer at the National Geographic Society, who found many of the specimens while a Curator of Paleontology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.

Illustration by Andrey Atuchin; Photos by Rick Wicker, Denver Museum of Nature & Science

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