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I can’t stop thinking about crocodiles for some reason so here’s some cool pictures I found of probably the second largest one in captivity, his name is Utan:

isn’t he beautiful

listen to the SOUND when he bites

and that’s not even a real power bite, that’s mostly just heavy bone falling on heavy bone from his jaws and the air rushing out from between them

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Marine iguanas (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

by Giovanni Mari

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princess ptuesday

That's right!

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It makes me sad how no one ever seems to mention how wild the crocodilian-line archosaurs were. Dinosaurs get all the attention when there was equally crazy shit happening on the other branch of the archosaur tree.

There was a whole linage of bipedal crocodylomorphs during the Triassic that were basically identical to theropod dinosaurs, so much so that a lot of them were initially classified as dinosaurs!

Just fucking look at them!

And these weren’t just little lizard guys, there were some big lads running around.

Not to mention the long-legged ones that galloped around on all fours like some kind of terrifying reptilian dogs.

These crazy crocodiles aren’t just from the Triassic, either; there was a galloping, hoofed crocodilian that lived during the Eocene and likely hunted horses. (They were smaller and not quite as fast as modern horses, but still)

But don’t worry, they weren’t all meat-eaters! There were vegetarian and omnivore crocodylomorphs too! Just look at this guy!

He was an ankylosaur before ankylosaurs were cool (or even existed).

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A gang of Tazoudasaurus naimi on parade in Morocco during the Early Jurassic 🦕🦕🦕🦕

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I love how snakes are literally just like “:3”

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All of the stego mates in one place :D

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Bubbly Baryonyx boy

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this means 'I love you' in dinosaur

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dinovember 1: Anchiceratops ornatus and Taxodium wallisii

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Carnotaurus boii

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Which raptor are you? Screenshot or pause the video to find out!

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The fact that you had to go into such a long and articulated explanation for why hitting a poor animal with a shovel to the head is just further evidence of how entrenched people are about reptiles somehow being lesser unfeeling animals. If anyone had done a video like this with dogs people would be raving about lynching that man.

Crocodiles afraid of the shovel

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i was the t-rex

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NEW VIDEO! (A very especial one)

Antediluvian is a short animated film that got me occupied for almost two years. It's a commemorative homage to Classic Paleoart and the earliest Paleontologists. Exactly 200 years ago was the first dinosaur formally described . I hope you enjoy it! In general Youtube tends to dismiss videos that are different tha the usual, so your support is highly appreciated :) Thank you all!

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Prints and more paleomerch

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Emissaries of the Low Sun

featuring a Carnotaurus with very long horns

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i try to take breaks and enjoy the afternoon sun on my porch when the weather's nice so i started setting my slack status to a lizard to let people know i'm basking for a bit and something to the effect of this graphic plays in the back of my head every time i see that little lizard icon