I find it fascinating that a group of reptiles grew nearly as diverse and prominent during the mesozoic as the dinosaurs did. We think of that time as the era of stem bird rule but this group of animals as well as the archosaurs in the air and sea shows that it wasn’t just the dinosaur show.
The sheer diversity of the Mesozoic is what makes it so cool then you end up realizing that all of them were reptiles which is cool to think that reptiles were once so diverse!.
Both cool and fascinating. It's somewhat interesting that the crocodylomorphs appear more "evolved" or "modern" than the crocs you see in the swamps today. I guess it's bipedalism and those long limbs directly under the body.
Yep exactly. Modern crocodilians are far from living fossils but instead animals that adapted to a very specific niche, losing some of the traits their terrestrial ancestors possessed.
Many lineages of crocodylomorphs reverted to being fully terrestrial: this includes some of the mekosuchine crocodilians that went extinct only recently (thanks to humans), such as Mekosuchus.
@@bkjeong4302 keep blaming humans. If you are such a problem take yourself out of the equation. Your worldly indoctrination shows. Did man kill off the dinosaurs too? Man force mammals into the water to become whales? Did man start the ice age that we are in? Did man cause the warming of the earth as it leaves the ice age? If man is so bad why is there still Nile crocodiles?
9:30 Not only is that piece of paleoart wonderful to look at, but it also showcase behavior of extinct animals that isn't synonymous with "prehistoric beast" with the emphasis on the 'beast' part. It's simply adorable and make the animals come alive in their own right. Reminds me of the (speculatively) playful sauropod from All Yesterdays.
When I told my nephew that crocodilians have a wide variety of ancestors he was baffled. Because it is always better to give correct info I showed him this video. He liked it very much and went on to see some other episode on your channel. Sadly these days children are not enough stimulated to discover things. To search for answers or to just find cool stuff like dinosaurs. All they want (and do) is play those XBOX games. There is so much to discover out there. When I was a child (long ago) I got fascinated by history and palaeontology. All my allowance was spend on books. Maybe I was a bit too geeky. Still I had friends who used to build these airplane maquettes. These girls knew all about the plane they built. They researched it before putting it together. … Well I hope I can keep on interesting my nephew in gathering knowledge. Having a wide knowledge is so important to understand the changing world.
@Dan Won I see,what you mean. It’s not so that I forced him to like dinosaurs and stuff. I just wanted to broaden his knowledge. It was his choice to continue watching the channel. If he wouldn’t have liked it well then so be it. You can’t make someone like things. About playing games, he does play a lot. His mum complains about it. It’s maybe because of the isolation. When playing he can speak and interact with his friends and I guess that is the attraction of it. I know that playing games doesn’t make people stupid and can make them interested in programming or developing games and such. There have to be also other interests and those can vary from sports to painting or horseback riding… It changes the way you look at the world and in a way makes you the person you are.
Not true, kids still seek knowledge, not as much but they still do, im gen z and I've always loved researching about animals whether it be on TV or on the internet or just reading books. And alot of my friends are the same specially when I was a child.
This is really funny. Earlier today I looked up your channel, because I was trying to find something interesting to watch and I thought of you, and I noticed that you hadn't released any new videos. But now this pops up in my recommended. A pleasant coincidence.
The next Pseudosuchian video will cover both the Protosuchians and their more derived relatives. After that we will be getting into the Notosuchians, which will take several videos to cover!
Dr. Polaris only give the best information by some of the most weirdest,unique & awesome prehistoric group of animals,also I love the high heel crocs,they're very cool. Also I hope y'all are having a good day
@@dr.polaris6423 ooooo gotcha, I should look into those studies. Also I’ve a question I’ve meaning to ask you for a very long time. In your Phytosaurs videos, you said they were some Non Phytosaurid Phytosaurs. What exactly does that mean?
I think global warming could possibly help encourage a surge of diversification in reptiles. Would be fascinating to see some terrestrial crocs in modern times. Preferably smaller ones though haha
Great coverage, crocodylomorphs are incredibly awesome and diverse, especially the notosuchians which is awesome you plan to cover. Also who do you think would win? Jack the Ripper or The Carolina butcher? My money’s on Carnufex, the Carolina butcher.
Id love to see a video on megalosaurs they flourished during the jurassic but they just kinda dissapeared in the cretetaecous or so i think Since i havent seen a single megalosaur from after the jurassic.
@@dr.polaris6423 because The evolution of big cat is kinda e mystery their is proof that big cat evolfe in Africa because of lion and cheetah but tiger and Snow leopard evolfe in Asia ,like hyenadon their is two spesies ,genus or maybe colony evolfe in asia and africa if iam not mistaken .
yes please, tiger evolution is somewhat of a mystery since they somehow evolve in the jungles of asia. it would be great how those tigers evolved into the strongest and ferocious cats ever
Thank you for the informative video! I wish we could have seen such fascinating animals. Imagine if all these crocodylomorphs had survived into the Jurassic!
If people think Monsterverse’s Godzilla’s tail-dragging stance is ‘unrealistic’ compared to Zilla’s horizontal stance, they’ll be super embarrassed when they get a look at the Saltoposuchus, and even real-life dinosaurs, like penguins and Therozinosaurus, had vertical stance.
@@darkmistico Many living reptiles, such as lizards, have lips in the sense of a thin, immobile band of scales covering their teeth. Modern crocodilians are actually unique for not having them
@Leonard squirrel Nope, I meant lips nothing more nothing less. Ben G Thomas Did T-Rex have lips ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZyoxPknp670.html E.D.G.E. Did Spinosaurus have lips? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oLjlTpmw138.html
@@dr.polaris6423 Thank you for answering, my question and I have one more if that’s alright. Would, you ever be interested in making your own video discussing the topic of Lips? Vs No Lips?
Note the artwork used to represent these extinct animals. Keep in mind that those representations are products of anatomical knowledge and imagination. I am old enough to remember when dinosaurs were more like lizards, alligators and snakes than birds.
It's a silly question maybe and unlikely to ever happen, not that I'm asking if it could happen but I wonder what might happen if and how would the world really react if somehow in a remote, isolated and barely explored region an actual medium-sized, non-avian, living dinosaur was really and very publicly discovered and captured (perhaps a totally unknown surviving species and/or maybe something that was considered a cryptid previously, though not necessarily so)..?
I enjoy this channel and despite my misgivings I look forward to your videos. I do feel that your professional knowledge and interesting narrative deserves more than the dorky intro music and that retarted looking bear popping up every so often.
To think that we have so biased vision of psudosuchians as amphibios animals. Until recently we had quinkana in australia. If modern civilization had that creature this story of living fossil wouldn't survive.
I'm so nerdy that though I want to enjoy the superimposed creatures on real backgrounds (a la AR), I can't because there are flowers and grasses and those would NOT have been present at the time. Sad face.
