*checks county map for NC**compares her county to Chatham**hoists shovel over her shoulder* If y'all'll excuse me, I've a backyard to start an archaeological dig in.
It's amazing how something as simple as "it walks on its hind legs" can take an crocodile from "this is a dangerous animal" to "this is nightmare-fodder" in my mind.
It's amazing how something as simple as "it walks on its hind legs" can take an crocodile from "this is a dangerous animal" to "this is nightmare-fodder" in my mind.
Six-foot salamanders from the same period don't seem nearly as fearsome.
Scary as it is, this dude got nothing on a later, more standardly aquatic croc that grew to be at least 40' long, in the Cretaceous Period. One of the greater mysteries of the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction is why so many major reptilian groups (dinosaurs, pterosaurs, marine mososaurs, plesiosaurs, etc.) died out, but crocodilians did not.
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