When Crocodiles Swam The Oceans

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Shout out to dimitry bogdanov the guy who drew most of those sick illustrations.

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That dude does some good work.

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@Luke Evans I actually found the pictures quite beautiful. I'm not sure how you found them repugnant and distasteful.

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@@JanetStarChild no sick as in cool illustrations

[@Popebug]

@@JanetStarChild Are you joking or just bad at English?

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@@Popebug he may have misunderstood what he ment by "sick"

[@paularmson4633]

Modern salt water crocodiles do in fact have a salt gland, located on the tongue.

[@mothlightmedia1936]

Last vid was about otter-diles seems only fair this vid should be about croco-whales and next week is about croco-birds. Actually no its not, it’s about the evolution of bats because that won the patreon poll, and croco-birds don’t exist. Also, most of you probably know this but for those that don’t. Although these animals are known as marine crocodiles they are not true crocodiles but crocodilomorphs, as they are not closely related to any living species.

[@Bassist665]

Fascinating stuff!

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Given that we had tusked croco-boars and bipedal croco-dinos, I wouldn’t be surprised if we ever found an arborial croco-glider 🤔

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Moth Light Media: "Croco-birds don't exist." Evolution: "Yet."

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If you wanna do “croco birds” you should make a video on the bipedal pseudosuchians :)

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"When crocodiles swam the oceans" Saltwater and American crocs: hold my fish

[@golamrabbi9151]

They are not technically marine animals.....the species that are alive today

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American ALLIGATOR*

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[@Doctor.Trolling]

Sven Servette there are American crocodiles

[@sunlizard9593]

Sven Servette American Crocodiles are a thing too

[@satan-pm5er]

"When crocodiles swam the oceans" Salt water croc: *leaves the chat*

[@Alab.A]

Salwater crocs don't venture too deep into the open ocean

[@satan-pm5er]

@@Alab.A but they do swim in it when they're travelling to different islands and stuff

[@satan-pm5er]

@Baldhina Asnake idk man our town doesn't have a safety net at our beaches and salt water croc signs everywhere for no reason. Where the hell did you get the drought thing from

[@satan-pm5er]

@Baldhina Asnake ofc not because they're bad swimmers but they do catch currents to swim to different islands. They do linger in sea waters though. I think you should do some research before you comment again or preferably, not comment at all

[@satan-pm5er]

@Baldhina Asnake buddy this is a KZbin comment section

[@robwalsh9843]

I think competition with mosasaurs also might have played a role in the disappearance of the marine crocodiles. The mosasaurs arrived like a storm and managed to become the dominant marine reptile group for the rest of the Cretaceous.They did what marine crocs and pliosaurs could do, only they possibly did it even better.

[@warpath313]

Mosasaurus also debatedly arrived earlier in the game before crocs could get to the same level. I find it somewhat amusing that through convergent evolution, the crocs could've become their own variant of mosasaur.

[@bkjeong4302]

Mosasaurs became dominant AFTER thalattosuchians (and pliosaurs and ichthyosaurs) were already extinct. The idea they outcompeted any of these groups has been disproven. If anything, mosasaurs only became so successful because all their competition died out (the same happened to tyrannosaurs-all the carcharodontosaurs dropped dead from the same event that finished off the pliosaurs and ichthyosaurs, so the tyrannosaurs took over as the new apex predators).

[@Robert399]

That's unlikely. Usually an existing apex predator prevents other predators from taking that role, even if they'd be better at it (e.g. the various lineages of carnivorous mammals). They can outcompete it into extinction but they can't just evolve to be bigger while it's still around.

[@chheinrich8486]

No, mosasaurs exploited their disappearance more likely

[@galacsinhajto]

I love how many forms and niches crocodiles and their close relatives filled in in the deep past. We think about them as slow lurking predators, and I sometimes wish other ,different forms survived. I have one other thing to comment on tbh. I know it is strange for English speakers but the 'gy' in Magyarosuchus is one letter, and signifies one sound (it is usually hard for you guys to pronounce tbh)it is close to how you would pronounce the beginning of due or during.

[@siyacer]

So it's pronounced more like Madjarosuchas

[@jacobscrackers98]

According to wikipedia it's pronounced as [ɟ] (voiced palatal stop) (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_palatal_stop, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_phonology ) Except this recording makes it sound like something different, so IDK: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hu-gy%C3%A1r.ogg

[@bkjeong4302]

We would still have crocodiles that chased down prey on land if not for us; the last terrestrial croc, Mekosuchus, only went extinct a few thousand years ago, and the larger Quinkana from Australia was part of the casualties of the Australian megafaunal collapse which was at least partially caused by humans.

[@Robert399]

@@jacobscrackers98 It sounds like gy or ("gj" using IPA spelling) to me. I think Mothlight just didn't recognise the word "Magyar" and put in an extra syllable "mag-ee-ar-oh-soo-kəs".

[@cosmiccryptid263]

Yeah its really There were prehistoric crocodiles that look like theropod dinousars some where land crocs and marine crocs that convergently evolved similar to another marine reptile like itchyosaurs

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And extremely common! Something like 50% of everything is parasitic!

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Me: zones out a few minutes to imagine a large marine crocodile for a fantasy world Moth Light: here's a ancient marine crocodile that has some features very similar while others quite the opposite

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Found this channel recently, and love the content. I wonder if the appearance of mososaurs and their relatives have been what caused the change to the marine reptiles.

[@souleater779]

"Name the creature something else than Magyaro + latin name or draw 25" Hungarian people who found fossils: *Stares with a full hand of cards*

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if you're referring to the Magyarosaurus that was named by a German dude

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[@adamrodgers9175]

3:03. Not known if they actively hunted that Dino. I'd honestly say scavenged. Crocs these days are known to eat already dead animals near or in water. The sheer size of the dino would be a hard kill, so I imagine they scavenged off a dead one.

[@aceeverwoode1541]

My personal theory, but I do not have any scientific background, is that it might have bit it in a more "You're to close to me and I feel threatened" way, like when humans occasionally get mauled by deer or cows.

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*Teleosaurids and Metriorynchids go extinct.* Varanoid-like ancestor looks around, "Anybody here? Well, this looks like a nice niche to take up." And so appeared Mosasaurids 100 million years ago. Honestly, I had no idea about the Thalattosuchians! Thank you for this vid. I love convergent evolution.

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[@bigmike4758]

These crocodiliforms are so under-represented in modern and mainstream paleontology that if I went back in time and saw one of them I would think I am looking at a mosasaur or an icthyosaur.

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[@LuCa8_]

Yes I love thalattosuchia, this family of prehistoric marine crocodiles is rlly overlooked sometimes (at least that’s how I feel) with the larger predators in the Jurassic seas being more popular but they’re rlly cool. My most favorite marine crocodile is most likely plesiosuchus just because it was so big even if it didn’t eat huge prey.

[@Kpaxlol]

Crocodile-like creatures with better swimming capacities would definitely be worse than sharks today and spread terror where we swim. They would attack without hessitiation. Sharks may not always attack but i dont think crocs really choose their prey like them. Crocs in africa attack pretty much anything that moves. Sharks rarely attack humans as prey. Imagine how much worse our oceans would have been to swim at.

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"Dakosaurus" is not to be confused with "Dakkasaurus", a gigantic, heavily-armored battlewagon popular at Orkish monster truck rallies.

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Make more videos on convergent evolution. The last one was probably the best on the topic on KZbin.

[@stefanostokatlidis4861]

Marine crocodilians evolved again at the end of the Cretaceous, and even passed through the mass extinction event that killed off the dinosaurs. They continued to diversify in the early cenozoic. Other, more recent marine garials existed. The last one died in Oceania around 2000 years ago due to humans.

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I mean could the Salt Water Croc be an example of them evolving to live in Marine environments again?

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[@RYLCatalystic]

fun fact, saltwater crocs while they nest in the river mouths they venture into the ocean 30-50 miles out almost everyday.

[@awkwardautumn]

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[@discoveryhistory5210]

This video is so educational I didn't know that there are crocodile that lived in the oceon.

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[@MrDdeded]

6:23 maybe plesiosuchus shows less teeth wear because it is larger than dakosaurus meaning less struggle on the large prey

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[@onleyone]

Hi! Good stuff. The odder crocodyliforms are one of my favorite topics! FYI: Roughly two minutes in, Pelagosaurus ("pelagic lizard") seems to be pronounced "Paleosaurus" ("ancient lizard"). [Edit: Perhaps I'm just mishearing!]

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do you plan on doing a video on multituberculates and mesozoic age mammals?

[@Pilsnor]

It allways gets me that a patreons nick name is ken ham

[@bkjeong4302]

You should do a video on sebecosuchians for an example of crocs being dominant in terrestrial settings. Slicing dentition is also found in many larger mosasaurs, and in large pliosaurs and some ichthyosaurs (in the latter two groups they have no serrations, just a daggerlike cutting edge)

[@royalguard2021]

when you realize they still do roam the ocean: saltwater crocodile: so that was a lie ?

[@olitor2004]

4:09 i mean i like hungary but they name their dinosaurs after their countries name ;D - for example there is a Magyar'osaurus (magyar in hungarian is hungary)

[@Kroggnagch]

Honest question: if we only knew of seaturtles via their skeleton or fossils, would we believe that it scuttled up onto land to lay its eggs? I mean, knowing it was an air breathing animal, im sure that would give us a clue that it at least would need shallow water or something. But I mean just by the dimensions, the speculated muscle strength and bone support. I'm just curious if perhaps these animals with flippers could've squiggled up onto land to lay their eggs since they breathed air too, so my guess is the eggs needed air as well, like the seaturtle, so is it possible they went on land to nest their young and then squiggle back in to the water?

[@manospondylus]

The particular Cetiosauriscus with the bite-marks you mention has recently been reclassified into its own genus called Amanzia

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he has all his resources in the description

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Could you do a video on marasuchus and where it fits in to the archosauria clade?

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Can you perhaps make a video about the physics of titanosaur bodies?

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