Is it possible that some of the prehistoric marine reptiles evolved gills and adapted to live in the deep sea, thus being able to survive the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction and still be living deep in the ocean?
I want Ichthyosaurs, mososaurs and similar creatures to still be alive
Modern marine reptiles exist, you know.
>NOOO!!! THEY'RE NOT HECKIN' BIG CHONKERS!!! I ONLY LIKE ANIMALS BIG ENOUGH TO SWALLOW ME WHOLE H-HEH HEH!!!
There's plenty of value in modern marine reptiles.
Now that you reminded me I actually had a nightmare last night about a giant sea turtle outside my window because I saw a photo of the inside of a leatherback sea turtle's throat at some point or another and it nestled itself into my subconscious. A leatherback sea turtle throats are 10x 'scarier' than mosasaurus.
Here's the kind of shit I'm talking about, by the way.
I want to watch a giant sea turtle swallow you while while you kick and scream and terror
I only count turtles as marine reptiles and maybe the snake's. Everything else here can live outside of salt water (Muh Iguana algea, I know) so there more likely aquatic reptiles.
Turtles can breath water out their ass (not joking either) so can’t see why another reptile group didn’t develop something similar.
No, you are stupid
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Anyone remember the national geographic DS game with these peeps?
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Animals at that size would be living near great food-sources. They'd be at the surface and somewhat close to the coastal regions alot of the time.
If they were still alive, we'd know. The same with Megalodon. There's still a ton of animals left undiscovered in the ocean, but none of them are at those great sizes.
Sorry to tell you dude, but those guys are as extinct as they come.
Some Ichthyosaurs were small, besides there are large deep sea creatures
Icthyosaurs are marine reptiles, not fish, so they could not survive down there for extended periods of time. Deep sea gigantism is a trait most associated invertebrates, and while there are massive deep sea fish like the oarfish and greenland shark, they are the exception rather than the rule and have a completely different body plan and lifestyle than an animal like an Icthyosaur would have
The best you're getting is those weird benthic sixgill sharks.
no, its really hard to de-evolve something really complex like a lung, its much more complicated than atrophying a limb like whales did
Maybe they didn't have lungs, what do we know about their organs?
It's a reptile... We know it had lungs...
Marie "reptiles" from like 50 fucking millions years ago... We know absolutely nothing about their anatomy.
You just think mammals and reptiles evolved lungs independently? Why wouldn't turtles, who has been around longer, have developed gills?
>You just think mammals and reptiles evolved lungs independently?
Yes? Some fishes got lungs through evolution too.
>Why wouldn't turtles, who has been around longer, have developed gills?
Not their strategy, don't know, maybe because they lay their eggs on the shore, just a random guess.
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