Actually, crocodiles live in a rather aggressive environment.

I don’t know what "logic" the author of the latest "study" was guided by, but tooth enamel will not thin just by being exposed to air. Crocodile teeth are in constant contact with water. Not only that - with river water, full of suspension of the smallest soil particles, which are precisely what have an abrasive effect and lead to enamel corrosion. In fact, it is crocodiles, for whom lips would be actually useful, such as for sea snakes, dolphins or other aquatic/semi-aquatic tetrapods. But they don't have them. Why? Obviously, the basal ancestors of archosaurs lost their lips at a certain stage of their evolution, and it is not possible to “retcon” the process and return reduced morphological features. That is why the birds never grew their arms and tails back, even when switching to a terrestrial way of life.

All this nonsense about “lost lips due to the transition to an aquatic lifestyle” is complete bullshit, purely far-fetched in the name of personal motives and a modern agenda.

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  1. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    The skull of a crocodile is pretty much shrinkwraped because of its powerful bite force and hunting methhods. You would have to find a cresture that hunts like them and has exposed terth too. Even fish have lips but some fish have exposed teeth too.

  2. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    Crocodiles lost the skin in their heads because of their bite force. The guy who came up with the moisture in teeth argument is sweating in a corner waiting to be debunked.
    If t Rex had an equally strong bite force for their size it's also arguable that they would have lose their lips for the se reason crocodiles did.

  3. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    >with river water, full of suspension of the smallest soil particles, which are precisely what have an abrasive effect and lead to enamel corrosion
    Probably the funniest thing I read all day

  4. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    Dinosaurs certainly didn't have lips

    just use the phylogenetic bracketing. Birds don't have lips. Crocodiles don't have lips. Dinosaurs didn't have lips.
    simple as

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      >using phylogenetic bracketing, manatees don’t have trunks and hyraxes don’t have trunks. Therefore elephants do not have trunks

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      phylogenetic bracketing also would imply that t.rex was feathered when everyone knows it's not the case

  5. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    How many threads are you up to now?
    What was your problem?
    If the teeth don’t show your gender dysphoria grows?

    Frick off and transition already lady. You ARE a woman. You were never a man. Happy? Go away.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      This is my only thread. You're just an obsessed homosexual.

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        Yes, it’s totally just a coincidence there’s another 12 or so shit tier dino threads up right now

  6. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    Could you link this study that you are speaking of or is it just a way to start rambling?

  7. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    Thickened tooth enamel and faster tooth replacement is an adaptation to make up for the loss of lips. The lips were lost because crocodilians adapted their facial mosaic integument in order to gain pressure sensors at their gum line to allow them to hunt fish in murky 0 visibility water.

    You’re getting cause and effect backwards. And you’re right that it’s basically impossible to re-evolve oral labia after losing them, which is why the tooth batteries of Ceratopsian dinosaurs helps prove that archosaurs conformed to the basal tetrapod condition of lipped mouths. Basal crocodiliforms (cusorial insectivores) were probably lipped as well.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      >tooth batteries of Ceratopsian dinosaurs helps prove that archosaurs conformed to the basal tetrapod condition of lipped mouths
      Again, any evidence for this other than your HRT badtrip?

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      Lips look dumb. Real animals don't look dumb. Dinosaurs were real animals.

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Thickened tooth enamel
      Crocodiles actually have relatively thin enamel.
      >The lips were lost because crocodilians adapted their facial mosaic integument in order to gain pressure sensors at their gum line
      Caecilians also have this but their teeth aren't exposed.
      >And you’re right that it’s basically impossible to re-evolve oral labia after losing them
      He's actually wrong. Softshell turtles developed analogous labia structures that cover most of the beak.

      A possibility as to why crocodiles look like that may be that they all evolved from a "snaggletoothed" gharial-like ancestor. From what I am aware of, animals with that kind of interlocking needle type dentition are all lipless with exposed teeth.

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        You didn’t read the paper. The enamel on a crocodile tooth starts very thick (compared to other reptiles) and wears down over the life of a tooth. The enamel on a theropod tooth is comparably thinner, and the lifetime of the tooth is longer.

        • 12 months ago
          Anonymous

          >The enamel on a crocodile tooth starts very thick (compared to other reptiles)
          is that what they said?
          post a quote, I bet you just can't read

  8. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    can someone please fricking behead the paleoschizo already?

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      >can someone please fricking behead the paleoschizo already?
      he is legion
      the demon cast into the swine

  9. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    >it is not possible to “retcon” the process and return reduced morphological features
    sure it is

  10. 12 months ago
    Anonymous

    >But they don't have them. Why?
    because they constantly replace their teeth

    • 12 months ago
      Anonymous

      So as dinos did.

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        And as Komodo dragons do

      • 12 months ago
        Anonymous

        No, over 4 times faster than a Theropod.

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