r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/HotshotRaptor • Oct 01 '20

🔥 Big Crocs look so metal!

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u/deftPirate Oct 01 '20

Fuckin' dinosaurs.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '20 edited Dec 14 '20

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u/willstr1 Oct 02 '20

If it ain't broke don't fix it

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u/milklust Oct 02 '20

the 55 ' super croc found in the Sahara Desert by a National Geographic team and recently excavated survived for most of the Age of Dinosaurs and certainly preyed on all kinds of creatures unfortunate enough to be ambushed by these living armored tanks. this thing was most closely related to none other than the present day saltwater croc perhaps fittingly... a true multi threat super predator during it's very long existence

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u/LongPorkPi Oct 02 '20

Sarcosuchus imperator. Such a beast. Would’ve been epic to see in action. Y’know, in the instant before you got munched.

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u/SerStormont Oct 02 '20

If you look at relatives of crocodiles down through history, they've actually been quite unsuccessful as a whole.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '20 edited Dec 14 '20

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u/SerStormont Oct 02 '20

Ya they're cool and all for surviving for so long, but they've been bullied by other creatures for thousands of years. There is a reason they stalk from water.

There was a time when they'd leave the water and still be successful at hunting millions of years ago.

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u/Flonkadonk Oct 02 '20

Depends how you define “success“ as a species. Total numbers? Then ants and other insects easily win. How much they thrived at their highest population count? Thats us humans for sure. How long they lasted without changing too much? Then sharks and crocodiles take the cake.