When Crocodiles Swam The Oceans

"I'm going to salt water"

"good luck with that"

I hope one day in a distant future evolution will be able to bring back similar creatures to the ocean.

Oh shit, this channel is awesome!

Viviparous fish fossils have been found. Since it’s such a basal trait I see no reason to believe these crocs weren’t.

Mosasaurs definitely contributed to their extinction either by out competing them or simply killing and eating them as they evolved during the Cretaceous and were responsible for killing off the icthyosaurs.

It must be difficult to be an evolutionary biologist. To have so much intelligence and yet never be able to prove most of your conclusions because you can't witness it actually happening. And having to deal with all the hard scientific evidence in microbiology that tells us that evolution is impossible. For example, we now know that mutations CANNOT create new body plans. I wonder how they can possibly continue to believe in such silly statements?
"Because crocodiles are good swimmers and many species can spend fairly long periods of time in the sea, they are always at a tipping point of becoming marine animals"

I awlays loved crocodiles, one of the most evolutionary perfect animals that's lived for millions upon millions of years , lived with dinosaurs, and now they live with us and when the sun explodes and sends all life flying across space the crocodile will survive.

You talk about evolution as if it's facts. It's literally called the "Theory of Evolution".

don’t they still

Interesting

I’ve seen crocs my whole life so when didn’t they swim the ocean

The rear limbs do not diminish as much as the front limbs. Maybe they hauled themselves onto the beach to lay eggs, using the still powerful hind limbs to dig as sea turtles do.

The thumbnail gave me subnautica vibes.

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

So they were like reptile seals?

I would love a video on archosaurs that group of animals is do diverse from crocodiles, flying pterosaurs, or the hugely diverse dinosaurs. What is is about that group of animals that was able to fill so many niches even till today?

how dumb is science

Yeet

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

I thout Tylersaurus whas a sea croc

Am I the only person who finds it really, really weird that Ken Ham is a patron of this channel?

I'd love to see what the world actually looked like back then.

Why are you monotone

i am fascinated by marine reptiles giving birth to live offspring

I'm glad this channel exists we need more content about prehistoric marine ecosystems

subnautica stalkers anyone??

Dolphin Crocodile

I love that ken ham was a member. That gave me great joy. 😂

Crocodiles still swim the the oceans....

You talk the same as xisumavoid, I was trying to figure out why you're voice was so familiar

You can’t assume that all ancient crocodilians were cold blooded when crocodilians have four chambered hearts like mammals and birds and their closest living relatives, birds, are warm blooded. There are plenty of fossils of running and high activity crocodilians. It’s completely possible that the current cold bloodedness is a secondary trait. Hell, there are big fish in the ocean that regulate their temperature to be above the ambient ocean.

So like would these ever come back if we just dumped abunch of crocs and alligators in the ocean

Bk4 I even watcch the video I can tell that they left the ocean bkcause of larger predators so migrated to lakes n shiet

I just wanna say i am a huge fan

50% croc, 50% shark, 100% Reason to remember never swim in prehistoric oceans

The only Archosaurs that lived in the ocean full time.

Why would Ken Ham support this channel? Your videos contradict everything Ken Ham preaches about. Interesting video, btw.

Crocodile in sea

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

so why the fuck didnt they live on ... let me guess they were warm blooded

This is interesting but why doesn't anyone do a video on the evolution of alligators since apparently the crocodile and alligator have differences between each other when did those snouts and teeth become different from each other why is 1 v shaped and 1 u shaped

Every time I discover a new lineage of extinct animals like the thalattosuchians, it reaffirms my determination to keep learning about paleontology until I know everything about the fascinating history of life on Earth. This of course means I will have to continue learning my whole life, but I don't think that's a problem, I think that's a perk!

Just noticed that someone donated to the channel under the name Ken Ham. Ken Ham is charlatan who makes his living pushing Young Earth Creationists with his sidekick Kirk Cameron.

I’m just waiting for him to say something like “one Teliasaurid was named Bob» in a video

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.

Now I need a speculative biology thing that has crocowhales

The Bible speaks often about suffering, but also about living well in the moment (Matthew 6:34, James 4:14). Even amid pain and suffering, Christians can find joy in the beautiful gift of life.