While studying the critically endangered slender-snouted crocodile, researchers discovered what they thought was one species is actually two, making the discovery the first new living crocodile species to be defined and named in nearly 85 years.

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While studying the critically endangered slender-snouted crocodile, researchers discovered what they thought was one species is actually two, making the discovery the first new living crocodile species to be defined and named in nearly 85 years.