HIGHLIGHTS

• The real fossil skull of SuperCroc
• A full-scale reproduction of entire SuperCroc skeleton
• Full-scale fleshed-out model of SuperCroc head
• Full-scale reproduction of Nigersaurus skeleton
• Full-scale fleshed-out reproduction of neck and head of Nigersaurus
• A mechanical, full-scale reproduction of the skeleton of Suchomimus that enables visitors to use levers to move the skeleton in a life-like way
• Video: The National Geographic documentary about SuperCroc’s discovery
• Life-sized models of SuperCroc hatchlings and modern crocodile hatchlings, with audio of how SuperCroc may have sounded
  
• SuperCroc touchable skull and photo station

VITAL STATS

SARCOSUCHUS IMPERATOR (SuperCroc)

• Lived 110 million years ago
• First discovered and named by French
  paleontologists in the mid-20th century
• Sarcosuchus imperator means “flesh
  crocodile emperor”
• This specimen was found in the Sahara desert
  by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Paul Sereno in 2000 and was about 50 percent
  complete
• 40 feet long
• Weighed an estimated 17,000 pounds in life
• Skull was 6 feet long, with 130 teeth
• One of the largest crocodiles ever to walk
  the earth
• Large enough to have eaten dinosaurs

NIGERSAURUS TAQUETI

• Lived 110 million years ago
• An unusual sauropod found in the Sahara
  desert in Niger
  
• First bones discovered in the 1950s by French
  paleontologists, but not named.
• This specimen found in 1997 by Paul Sereno
  and was 80 percent complete
• Nigersaurus was named and reconstructed
  by Sereno. The reconstruction was revealed
  November 2007 at National Geographic
  headquarters, Washington DC
• 30 feet long, with a body the size of an
  elephant’s
• 6-foot-long neck that reached downward,
  rather than up
• A wide flat-fronted jaw with more than 50
  columns of scissor-like teeth designed for
  cutting down plants at ground level
• CT scans of the jaw bones reveal as many as
  500 teeth in the jaw, ready to replace others as
  they wore out
• Lived in the same area and was a likely prey
  animal for SuperCroc
• This is the first time Nigersaurus has been
  displayed outside of Washington DC