{"id":373406,"date":"2026-10-08T15:46:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T10:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=373406"},"modified":"2026-10-08T15:46:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T10:16:47","slug":"herugavialis-cairensis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/herugavialis-cairensis\/","title":{"rendered":"Herugavialis Cairensis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-green\">\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Scientists have identified Herugavialis Cairensis, a <strong>new species of extinct crocodilian<\/strong> from fossils discovered in Egypt.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\">About Herugavialis Cairensis<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 328px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/06231012\/Sphinx-croc_Herugavialis_cairensis.png?resize=328%2C234&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Herugavialis cairensis \" width=\"328\" height=\"234\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Mongabay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Herugavialis Cairensis<\/strong> is a <strong>newly discovered<\/strong> <strong>extinct crocodile species <\/strong>that<strong> lived millions of years before in Egypt.\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It has been <strong>named after the Egyptian god Heru or Horus<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It belongs to a <strong>group of long-snouted crocodilians called gavials.\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Fossils show <strong>gavials once lived nearly worldwide, and many species swam in shallow seas.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>one of the six species of gharials<\/strong> that were <strong>found in the Mediterranean <\/strong>across a 43 million year period, from 66-23 million years ago.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Location of finding: <\/strong>The fossils came from the<strong> Mokattam Formation in northern Egypt. <\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The rocks of this formation was<strong> used to build the Sphinx of Giza in Egypt.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It <strong>appears similar to the<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/gharial\/\"> gharial (<em>Gavialis gangeticus<\/em>)<\/a><\/strong> found today in the rivers of North India.<\/li>\n<li>It had the <strong>characteristic long, narrow snout<\/strong> associated with gharial-like crocodilians.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>tip of its snout was missing.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Scientists have identified Herugavialis Cairensis, a new species of extinct crocodilian from fossils discovered in Egypt. About Herugavialis Cairensis Herugavialis Cairensis is a newly discovered extinct crocodile species that lived millions of years before in Egypt.\u00a0 It has been named after the Egyptian god Heru or Horus. It belongs to a group of long-snouted&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/herugavialis-cairensis\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Herugavialis Cairensis<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,12039,11834],"tags":[11872,10504],"class_list":["post-373406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","category-species-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-down-to-earth","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}