Eight-million-year-old crocodile skull

Australia crocodile: Skull identified as part of new extinct species

The skull had been found about 200km (125 miles) from Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory (NT), in 2009.

It was thought to belong to a known reptile of the Baru genus but that has now been updated with new study.

The species is expected to be named in 2022, and there is a Baru exhibition in the NT.

Dr Adam Yates, senior curator of Earth Sciences at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, said the skull was found at the Alcoota fossil site in central Australia.