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New Old Croc With Unique Mouth Found In Patagonia

All Acting Regiment

06:14 / 11.11.05

Dakosaurus andiniensis.

I always find things like this interesting- they've found giant sea crocodiles before, but this is the first crocodile proper (as opposed to plesiosaur etc) they've found to have this kind of snout. They think it probably evolved to eat larger animals, as opposed to fish, which require a long thin jaw with needle like teeth.

It makes you wonder: what other morphological variations are out there?

Dead Megatron

18:53 / 11.11.05

What makes me wonder is: why are all cool monsters os the world exctict? And, I know it's not this case, but so many of them suddenly disapeared shortly before Homo sapiens begun. Was there some alien/divine plot to clear the terrain for us???? (talking about un-scientific speculations...)

All Acting Regiment

19:43 / 11.11.05

Well we still had giant ground sloths (as big as a bus), mammoths, wooly rhinos, in Australia there were giant kangaroos, wombats and especially eagles big enough to carry off people, and also large flightless birds, also giant monitor lizards in micronesia as long as a canal boat and thicker.

And bigfoot, don't forget bigfoot.

This giant croc is colloquially reffered to as Godzilla, probably because science doesn't get press coverage unless we can tie it to popular culture (hence the 'hobbits' in Indonesia).

With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound
He pulls the spitting high tension wires down
Helpless people on a subway train
Scream bug-eyed as he looks in on them
He picks up a camero and he throws it back down
As he wades through the buildings toward the center of town

Oh no, they say he’s got to go go go godzilla
Oh no, there goes tokyo go go godzilla

quixote

22:16 / 13.11.05

I seem to remember reading that this giant croc is estimated to have gone extinct about 65,000,000 years ago (together with the rest of the big dinosaurs). Humans, by the most generous estimate, don't go back more than about 4,000,000. Bit of a gap there.

If you want big things with lots of teeth, how about orcas (killer whales)? And never forget the box jellyfish. Gram for gram, they're actually the most effective killing machines on earth. Not very macho, but effective (as is so often the way?).

Bard: One-Man Humaton Hoedown

00:05 / 15.11.05

The box jellyfish? Do tell. You said something about teeth?

Dead Megatron

07:29 / 15.11.05

quixote, I said that was onot exaclty the case. I was thinkinf about giant sloths, giant predators birds who can't fly, saber-tooth tygers, giant rhinoceros, that sort of thing that disapeared in the lat Ice Age. And I know there are exceptions. Stop ruining my jokes

quixote

15:52 / 16.11.05

Sheesh. You can't have any fun around here.

Btw, I didn't mean to imply jellyfish have teeth. They do it all with stinging cells. (And mirrors?)

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