Oddly enough, itwasamodern crocodile — an Australianfreshwatercroc known as a "freshy, " thathelpedSereno figure out how someofhisancient crocs behaved.
All of this is true, just as it is also the case that the diplomatic factors that made UN Security Council Resolution 1973 possible - allowing air strikes against Libya - were very unusual, relying largely on the fact that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has behaved so oddly for so many years that he is pretty much friendless.