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Urmia is Iran's largest lake, but has largely dried out leaving a vast salt bed.

Urmia, in the northwest, is Iran's largest lake, but has largely dried out and turned into a vast salt bed due to drought.

The local authority has redeveloped it into a residential area full of low-rise apartment buildings and shops - there's even a lake.

The lake is filled with water collected from the roof of an old aircraft hangar and pumped from two boreholes.

The eggshell microstructure indicates that these crocodiles likely nested along the edges of a lake and adjusted their reproductive strategies as conditions shifted over time.