We had giant land crocodiles occupying various niches up until the ice age. Why is nature so gay bros
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We had giant land crocodiles occupying various niches up until the ice age. Why is nature so gay bros
We can go bigger.
Proofs?
And I mean actual proof. Not a rib and a tooth
we luckily have a nearly complete holotype, its really weird compared to modern crocs
Croc related existed until a few thousand years ago, and smaller ones still exist today
forgot croc related
here's that thing theyre eating
looks tasty
It still mindfricks me that these animals weren't even close relatives of elephants but just happen to evolve the same features.
They look closer to tapirs to me, which are also ungulates.
These things probably could have regularly hunted elephants had they been African thats how big they were.
Quinkana existed 10,000 years ago.
Some of them weren't even crocodilians. Like the ones in your image, there were some that were simply a different lineage altogether.
The last non-avian, non-crocodilian archosaurs.
I wonder if notosuchians would be considered crocodiles if they were still alive today
They probably would have been for a while, but through genetic testing later on we'd figure out they're cousins.
I think they would still taxonomically be considered crocodiles the same way we group all squamates together
Good point. Squamata still fricks me up that it includes fricking snakes
Well we wouldnt be able to take them out without taking out half of what we call "lizards" as well
Tuataras are rhynchocephalians and have been known as such since the 19th century despite looking like a normal lizards.
I'd say the modern construction of the family tree would be different but they'd still be under pseudosuchia like how lizards and tuataras are under lepidosauria.
Sebecidae mentioned!
nature is literally straight
maybe the giant crocs went extinct because they were gay ever think of that smart guy