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Post by brobear on Aug 2, 2022 5:52:20 GMT -5
Henry, 120 or 121 years old... doesn't matter. He is one very old crocodile.
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Post by brobear on Oct 1, 2022 6:08:52 GMT -5
A Crocodile That Caught a Sawfish in Its Jaws and Devoured It. siamtoo.com/16415/ A freshwater crocodile has been captured on camera making a quick meal of an endangered sawfish. Scientists released the photo showing a freshwater crocodile attacking a critically endangered sawfish in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, highlighting their dangerous journey between the Fitzroy River and the sea.
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Post by brobear on Oct 4, 2022 4:44:06 GMT -5
Confractosuchus / Crocodile had dinosaur for its last meal based on 95-million year old fossil siamtoo.com/2486/ Paleontologists in Australia have discovered a new species of crocodile that could have eaten a dinosaur for its last meal around 95 million years ago. Daily Star reported that the fossilized crocodile, dubbed the Broken Dinosaur Killer, was uncovered on a sheep station in outback Queensland. The team was astonished to find partial remains of a young ornithopod dinosaur inside the stomach of the fossilized crocodile. Matt White from The Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum said it was an extraordinary discovery – the world’s first to find dinosaur remains in a crocodile. Crocodile’s Last Meal Gives Clue to Prehistoric Diet In 2010, a team of paleontologists found the fossilized crocodile near Winton. ABC News reported that it took the team six years to piece the fossils together ad find the first skeletal remains of an ornithopod ever reported in the region. More so, it is the first evidence that crocodiles ate dinosaurs in Australia. Dr. Matt said that this prehistoric crocodile with fossilized remains of a dinosaur inside its stomach continues to provide new clues to the relationship and behavior of animals that once lived in the Land Down Under millions of years ago. It also showed that dinosaurs played a significant part in the Cretaceous food web. He added that dinosaurs were part of an intricate web of birds, mammals, pterosaurs, and crocodiles and were not precisely at the top of the food chain. The latest discovery demonstrates the direct evidence of the food source of crocodiles back then and that they eat anything that comes close to them. Previous discoveries have shown that ornithopods already roamed the Earth around 100 million years ago. These dinosaurs are small plant-eaters with beaks and cheeks full of teeth. “Ornithopods were very cute little dinosaurs, probably a little bit bigger than a chicken at about 1.2 kilograms,” ABC News quoted Dr. White. He added that the ornithopods would have looked like Ducky from “The Land Before Time” movie. *More to read on site provided.
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Post by brobear on Oct 18, 2022 2:32:39 GMT -5
Electric Eel Vs Crocodile The crocodile hesitates a while, but eventually strikes. His fate is immediately sealed. The animal gets electrocuted and stiffens. An adult electric eel can produce an shock of up to 550 volts. Strong enough to stun and sometimes even kill a crocodile or a human being. They mainly live in pools and creeks in the Amazon region.
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Post by brobear on Oct 22, 2022 8:30:10 GMT -5
Saltwater Crocodile v Great White Shark or Tiger Shark. The saltwater crocodile, also known as estuarine or Indo-Pacific crocodile, (Crocodylus porosus) is the largest of all living reptiles. It is found in suitable habitats in Northern Australia, the eastern coast of India and parts of Southeast Asia. The saltwater crocodile has a longer muzzle than the mugger crocodile: its length is twice its breadth at the base. The saltwater crocodile has fewer armor plates on its neck than other crocodilians, and its broad body contrasts with that of most other lean crocodiles, leading to early unverified assumptions that the reptile was an alligator. Males reach sexual maturity at around 3.3 metres (11 ft) at around 16 years of age, while females reach sexual maturity at 2.1 metres (6.9 ft) and 12–14 years. An adult male saltwater crocodile's weight is 409 to 1,000 kilograms (900–2,200 lb) and length is normally 4.1 to 5.5 metres (13–18 ft). However, mature males can exceed 6 metres (20 ft) and weigh more than 1,000 kilograms (2,200 lb) and this species is the only extant crocodilian to regularly reach or exceed 4.8 metres (16 ft). Weight can vary enormously based upon condition and age, older males tending to outweigh younger ones since they maintain prime territories with access to better, more abundant prey. For example, crocodiles at 4.8 metres (16 ft) long have ranged in mass variously from 522 kilograms (1,150 lb) to 1,000 kilograms (2,200 lb). This species has the greatest sexual dimorphism of any modern crocodilian, with females being much smaller than males. Typical female body lengths in the range of 2.3 to 3.5 metres (8–11 ft). The largest female on record measured about 4.2 metres (14 ft). The mean weight of the species as a whole is roughly 450 kilograms (1,000 lb). The saltwater crocodile is an opportunistic apex predator capable of taking nearly any animal that enters its territory, either in the water or on dry land. They are known to attack humans who enter the crocodiles' territory. Juveniles are restricted to smaller animals such as insects, amphibians, crustaceans, small reptiles, and fish. The larger the animal grows, the greater the variety of animals it includes in the diet, although relatively small prey (especially fish) make up an important part of the diet even in adults. Large adult saltwater crocodiles can potentially eat any animals within their range, including monkeys, kangaroos, wild boar, dingos, goannas, birds, domestic livestock, pets, humans, water buffalo, gaurs, bats, and even sharks. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (IMO) Such a face-off depends on the depth of the water. I would think that in water 20-feet deep or less, the crocodile would take this one. Any much deeper and the advantage goes to the shark.
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Post by brobear on Oct 22, 2022 8:38:44 GMT -5
*Note: I will add to the post above; people often remark on how tough the crocodile or alligator's hide is. FYI, the shark also has a tough hide. Perhaps equally so.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2022 8:58:23 GMT -5
Also, BTW don't get me wrong, i do love bears. But i like sharks and reptiles more, but bears are still cool.
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Post by brobear on Nov 15, 2022 13:00:59 GMT -5
Also, BTW don't get me wrong, i do love bears. But i like sharks and reptiles more, but bears are still cool. What is your take on crocodile vs shark? Also note, fresh information on the crocodilians is greatly appreciated.
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Post by brobear on Dec 11, 2022 4:44:34 GMT -5
Giant Crocodile Said To Have Eaten 300 People: 'They Never Kill for Fun' www.newsweek.com/giant-crocodile-eaten-300-people-never-kill-fun-gustave-nile-1766034?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR1W6hKidQ_heDUH3bf1C_i8LHm4A2aeqFiA9bJToieTXnAFLnggSa7Q2Fk#Echobox=1670622721 For decades, the people of Lake Tanganyika in Burundi have been terrorized by an enormous man-eating crocodile known as Gustave. The Nile crocodile is rumored to have killed over 300 people and has earned legendary status in the area along the Rusizi River. Crocodile specialist Marc Gansuana told Newsweek that Gustave has been known about for some time, and the National Geographic have found records of his attacks on villagers dating back to 1987. However, he was only formally identified and named in 2001 by herpetologist Patrice Faye. Gustave is thought to be one of the largest crocodiles in Africa, stretching nearly 20 feet long and weighing approximately 2,000 pounds. "His size [means] he cannot be mistaken with any other one in his territory," Gansuana said. In a 2002 interview with the BBC, Faye said that the crocodile's enormous size was potentially responsible for his human-heavy diet. "He is three times as big as the other crocodiles in Burundi," Faye said. "He is not very fast and cannot feed on what other crocodiles in Burundi eat, namely fish and small mammals. He attacks slow prey, which are easy to capture." Most of the time, Gustave spends his days on a small river island near Lake Tanganyika, the second largest lake in Eastern Africa. However, during mating season Gustave travels along the banks of the Ruzizi River, and it is then that he is at his most dangerous, Faye said. "He travels all the way to the areas of Rumonge and Minago and eats fishermen and bathers en route. He can eat 10, 15 or 20 people along the bank. One year, I followed the path he took on one of his forays and 17 people had been eaten between Kanyosha and Minago, and Kabezi and Magara." But even for such a beast, killing 300 people is quite a feat. Gansuana said this figure was only an estimate and that it was very difficult to gather accurate death statistics for such a wild animal. "The reliability of such statistics is difficult to assess in this kind of case," he said. "The most important thing to remember is that he was clearly a predator of the village of Gatumba." Because Gustave rarely eats all of his prey, the locals have suggested that Gustave does not only kill for food, but also for fun. However, Gansuana said this was not the case: "They never kill for fun. Crocodiles have very few requirements in terms of quantity of food. Once killed, a prey item is not entirely consumed, except in very special circumstances. "Thus, most of [Gustav's] prey—humans or cattle—were found almost whole, with only a few parts missing, which could explain why people thought it was killing for fun and not for food." Gansuana said corpses from war that had been washed up by the river may also have been wrongly attributed to Gustave. Gustave has not been seen since 2016, but, being over 75 years old, Gansuana said the monster crocodile could still be out there. "It is difficult to confirm that he is dead, nobody seems to have bragged about having killed him, and his territory is immense, virtually the whole of Lake Tanganyaka and its tributaries!" Perhaps Gustave is just lying low until his next strike.
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Post by brobear on Dec 27, 2022 5:30:33 GMT -5
Enormous Crocodile Lived alongside Titanosaurs and Abelisaurid Dinosaurs www.sci.news/paleontology/titanochampsa-iorii-11513.html The newly-identified crocodyliform species lived in what is now Brazil during the Late Cretaceous epoch, between 72 and 66 million years ago. The ancient animal inhabited an arid to semiarid environment, where ephemeral water bodies were common. Named Titanochampsa iorii, it was between 3 and 6 m (10-20 feet) long and had a very strong bite. It likely belonged to Neosuchia, a clade that includes all modern extant crocodilians and their closest fossil relatives. “Both the large size of Titanochampsa iorii and its inferred strong bite are compatible with an amphibian lifestyle, including ambushing behavior, as seen in most crocodiles nowadays and matching its possible affinity to Eusuchia,” said Universidade de São Paulo paleontologist Thiago Fachini and his colleagues. The fossilized remains of Titanochampsa iorii were found in 1987 in the deposits of the Marília Formation in the Monte Alto area, the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The material is composed of a partially preserved skull roof, including most of its right side. “Given its large size and fragmentary nature, the material was initially labeled as a partial titanosaur skull in the museum exhibition, but later acknowledged as a fragmentary crocodyliform skull,” the paleontologists said. “Despite its incompleteness, the specimen bears several unique characters,” they added. “There are obvious signals of abrasion on the roof surface, but the ornamentation can still be observed, mainly on the squamosal, at the lateral corner of the skull.” “It is composed of small regularly spaced pits and faint grooves.” “In addition to representing a group so far little known in the Cretaceous of Brazil, Titanochampsa iorii contributes to a better understanding of the evolutionary aspects of crocodiles and why Neosuchia was successful, while the vast majority of crocodyliforms became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period,” Fachini concluded. The discovery is reported in a paper in the journal Historical Biology.
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Post by brobear on Dec 27, 2022 5:30:59 GMT -5
In the Monte Alto region in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, paleontologists have unearthed the fossilized remains of a new crocodyliform species that lived at the same time as giant titanosaurs and carnivorous abelisaurid dinosaurs.
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Post by brobear on Jan 19, 2023 5:27:55 GMT -5
How crocs can go hours without air: Crocodilian hemoglobin www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/01/230112134747.htm Date: January 12, 2023 The crocodilian edition of hemoglobins -- the scuba tanks of the blood -- work so well that crocs can go hours without air. The hyper-efficiency of that adaptation has led some biologists to wonder why, of all the jawed vertebrates, crocodilians were the lone group to hit on such an optimal solution to making the most of a breath. After resurrecting the hemoglobin of ancient crocodilian ancestors, a team may have an answer.
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Post by brobear on Mar 12, 2023 3:52:33 GMT -5
Fat crocodile ashore to lay eggs, encountered a giant python hunter, crocodile killer rushed to ask for python meat but was brutally swallowed by it newspst.com/fat-crocodile-ashore-to-lay-eggs-encountered-a-giant-python-hunter-crocodile-killer-rushed-to-ask-for-python-meat-but-was-brutally-swallowed-by-it/?fbclid=IwAR3UJc0EBfxVf_EWkPyG_a4Fu1_bywlt8PQGWYkJZ8-qUteNraxvUdVcf-w The Amazon jungle is home to a lot of weird and huge animals. We can see crocodiles 8 meters long, or giant pythons 15 meters long. The scene below is the confrontation between the two most dangerous cold-blooded hunters in the amazon forest: crocodile and giant python. The breeding season has come, a crocodile comes ashore to lay eggs and hides the eggs under the sandy soil. On the way back to the river, he came across a huge python hunting. Too tired and hungry after laying eggs, the crocodile rushed in to eat the python, without caring about anything else. It rushed to madly bite the giant python like a starving person. Surprised by the onslaught of crocodiles, however, with the bravery of a professional hunter, the python braced himself for the blow and began to tightly embrace the crocodile. Despite launching fatal bites, when tightly coiled by the python, the crocodile was completely weak and could not escape. The crocodile died tragically and was swallowed by the giant python shortly after, the end of the crocodile’s aggression when confronting the cold-blooded killer. ____________________________________________________________________________ Pythons in South America? Video on site provided.
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Mar 13, 2023 2:09:25 GMT -5
Reply 285. Sharks have tougher skin than that of mammals probably but their gills are relatively unprotected.
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