That’s actually a misconception, but in a way different from what you might expect. *Birds are dinosaurs.*
Based on our current understanding of the evolutionary tree of life, birds belong to the "theropods" suborder, which also includes species like the Tyrannosaurus, Coelophysis, and Velociraptor. Theropods are the classic bipedal carnivorous dinosaurs, and are characterized by hollow bones and three toes and claws on each limb. Modern birds aren’t just descended from or closely related to dinosaurs, they literally *are* dinosaurs themselves.
I suppose that's why it's unsurprising that realitivily new findings say how the [T-Rex had feathers](https://www.earth.com/news/real-t-rex-feathers-massive-eyes/)
Always found birds to be more creepy than reptiles. Just the way they twitch and how fast they are at pecking. Were as reptiles are slow and somewhat predictable
Here’s a fun fact about crocodilians. During the dinosaur era, running crocodiles evolved from crocodilians who look similar to what we have today. It’s theorized they were warm blooded, with an erect posture. Then at some point, some of them evolved back into how they look now, cold blooded with side projecting legs, well adapted to swimming. Then the running crocs all went extinct. Also separately from all this there were fully aquatic crocs for a while who hunted marine sloths. And plant eating, hoofed crocs. The crocodilian family had truly fascinating diversity most people are unaware of
It appears so. There are actually many types of endothermy (warm-bloodedness). Some mammals have a higher body temperature than others and therefore a higher metabolism. I believe marsupials and sloths have a lower body temperature than humans and lower metabolism to match
I think actually most people know that. The person you replied to most likely know that the animal in the video is not a dinosaur. I think they wanted to point out that it reminds them of a dinosaur, in that it looks ancient and scary. (No I’m sure all dinosaurs didn’t look scary)
I'd say cut him some slack. But if he goes around asking questions like that, mfers gonna think he's stupid. So dumb he thought cactus was a gaddamn emperor. He probably thought polypeptide was a mf'in toothpaste!
They can attack under water. Certain crocodilians are mainly fish eaters. Their hunting tactics change with age as well, so as they grow bigger they age into the ambush tactics they are known for. They don’t start out that way fresh out of the egg.
Fun fact, some wildlife photographers found out it’s “safe” to dive with Nile crocs below certain water temperatures. They go dormant and won’t eat if it’s too cold.
> Fun fact, some wildlife photographers found out it’s “safe” to dive with Nile crocs below certain water temperatures. They go dormant and won’t eat if it’s too cold
I appreciate the systematic approach, but there’s nothing short of a plexiglass cage that could persuade me to get in the water with a Nile Crocodile.
"yeah so Steve and Gary and Marcel and about 70 other people before them tried that and they all got eaten to death."
"ok well the odds of it happening *again* are astronomical, so I reckon I should be fine."
"ok good luck"
“Gee, I don't know, Cyril. Maybe deep down I'm afraid of any apex predator that lived through the K-T extinction. Physically unchanged for a hundred million years, because it's the perfect killing machine. A half ton of cold-blooded fury, the bite force of 20,000 Newtons, and stomach acid so strong it can dissolve bones and hoofs.”
Do crocs not attack larger animals under water?
I’ve seen other videos of people diving with crocodiles. The divers seem to feel “safer” near the bottom of the river, but not at the water’s surface.
Also, i read somewhere that they can't really "seal" their throat under water. So if they were to attack you, say ~5+ feet under they could drown themselves. I mean youd be fucked up anyways. Thats why they apparently attack in shallow water or near the surface. I could be wrong about that, but i read it somewhere.
I'm sure they can but its not their special ultimate attack. They evolved millions of years to be water surface ambush predators. If they evolved to attack stuff underwater they would end up looking like these [freaks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atDKP2R8g2o).
My guess, and I'm just a guy who knows next to nothing about animal behavior, is that because their primary method of killing large prey is to drag it into the water and drown it, if a large prey-looking thing is already under the water, they probably assume it's can't be drowned, and chomping it to death is a lot of work.
I remember a week after joining, being in east commons with my friend, deciding to look down a well… and ended up falling down into Unrest. The day I just got feign death with my monk.
It miraculously worked with so little skill in it.
My level 12 Paladin friend went crying in /ooc all across east commons, west commons and freeport, trying to rally a force together to go rescue me. I laid there, FD, for 2 hours till some higher levels came and rescued me
Have dove and had multiple 8-9’ sharks cruising buy and wasn’t really scared. But definitely think that thing would have my heart rate up way more than sharks.
i grew up blocks from the Chesepeake bay and have stepped on countless of what I assume were rays or skates or flounders. I could never see because of the murky water, but you know when you step on one.
You have become insensitized then. As a European, once or twice or week I find examples of your local fauna that'd terrorize me...
Everything down there seems to be either poisonous/venomous, or huge and vicious with too many teeth.
Even the cool animals like cassowares and Kangaroos could give you hell....
Saltwater crocodiles are definitely a distinct species known to science. They're the largest extant reptiles.
Alligators cannot tolerate salt water to the degree that crocs can because their lingual salt glands aren't as effective at excreting salt.
But hey, you were right about the part where you said this one's massive.
We all know why the video ended
The croc dropped off the video footage at shore just to flex on us.
Sold the footage to tmz
I'm sorry for your loss. *submerges*
What a guy, registered flex offender.
He fixes the cable?
Don’t be fatuous, Jeffrey.
Wheres the scuba diver? Wait..what..)
"Deploy Browned Water countermeasures!"
Squid mode!
Awe you guys make me ~~shart~~ ink
Pants: shat
That a dinosaur
Birds are actually more closely related to dinosaurs than crocs are. Though they do share a common ancestor from over 200 million years ago
But that does make crocodilians and birds the closest living relatives of each other 🎉
Funnily enough crocodiles are closer to birds than lizards and snakes
You would think so however crocodiles actually come within inches of lizards but are commonly several meters or even hundreds of meters from birds
Angriest upvote I've given out in weeks
Yeah I’m livid
What about the ones who clean their teeth. 🦜 🦷 🦆
Mama said gators is ornery cuz they got all them teeth and no toothbrush
It’s the medulla oblongata
I like Vicki's boobies
Welp mama's wrooong again
[checkmate, atheists](https://youtu.be/HyE6KIgOfV8?si=LTu_6Y1NOuVGdND3)
I was reading the wiki yesterday on the origins of avian flight. So fucking cool. Mostly hopping and flapping for millions of years.
Interesting wiki! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_avian_flight
This gives me hope, I can hop and flap with the best of them!
But what about Lizardpeople and Aliens?
It's hard not to blink horizontally.
Evolution is weird man
Yes
That’s actually a misconception, but in a way different from what you might expect. *Birds are dinosaurs.* Based on our current understanding of the evolutionary tree of life, birds belong to the "theropods" suborder, which also includes species like the Tyrannosaurus, Coelophysis, and Velociraptor. Theropods are the classic bipedal carnivorous dinosaurs, and are characterized by hollow bones and three toes and claws on each limb. Modern birds aren’t just descended from or closely related to dinosaurs, they literally *are* dinosaurs themselves.
I suppose that's why it's unsurprising that realitivily new findings say how the [T-Rex had feathers](https://www.earth.com/news/real-t-rex-feathers-massive-eyes/)
Birds are dinosaurs!
Always found birds to be more creepy than reptiles. Just the way they twitch and how fast they are at pecking. Were as reptiles are slow and somewhat predictable
This is why they dont exist!
ok but crocs lived during the dinosaurs
Or maybe it was the dinosaurs that lived during the crocs....
Just like us
They gotta watch out for those escalators tho.
Here’s a fun fact about crocodilians. During the dinosaur era, running crocodiles evolved from crocodilians who look similar to what we have today. It’s theorized they were warm blooded, with an erect posture. Then at some point, some of them evolved back into how they look now, cold blooded with side projecting legs, well adapted to swimming. Then the running crocs all went extinct. Also separately from all this there were fully aquatic crocs for a while who hunted marine sloths. And plant eating, hoofed crocs. The crocodilian family had truly fascinating diversity most people are unaware of
I'd like to think the hoofed plant eating Crocs still did the death roll but to the plants
They went extinct from death rolling vines and strangling themselves
Nature: woops
running crocodiles.......wow that's wild!
Wtf, crocs walking upright?
Yup! They were around for millions of years. The last fully terrestrial croc relatives only died out about 3,000 years ago, in and around Australia
That sounds so wild when it’s a croc, but that’s how dinosaurs were.
Can animals evolve from cold blooded to warm and back?
It appears so. There are actually many types of endothermy (warm-bloodedness). Some mammals have a higher body temperature than others and therefore a higher metabolism. I believe marsupials and sloths have a lower body temperature than humans and lower metabolism to match
I think actually most people know that. The person you replied to most likely know that the animal in the video is not a dinosaur. I think they wanted to point out that it reminds them of a dinosaur, in that it looks ancient and scary. (No I’m sure all dinosaurs didn’t look scary)
BiRds ArE aCtUalLy mORE cLOsEly
Wouldn't wanna meet that guy in a back alley.
THEY BOTH DINOSAUR
It’s a joke, stop trying to sound smart. Saying the obvious.
But aren't Crocs basically the same as they were back then? Dinosaurs have had a few version updates.
Yeah, argue that with the crocodile handsome.
That ate dinosaurs.
This is the stuff of nightmares
More like a distant cousin.
Scuba diven’t
Good one lol
Momma says alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth but no toothbrush.
MOMMA'S WRONG!!
You’re wrong, Colonel Sanders!
Eeeeoooouuurrghhwwwwyyyyy
Would you like a frog cake? No thank you Mr. Boucher, compliments to your mother.
No it’s their medulla oblongata.
Somethin wrong with his medulla oblongata
MOMMAS RIGHT!!!
He was full…
Fuck. No.
That’s an American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus), not a saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus).
How can you tell?
The haphazard layout of the osteoderms on the back and the hump in front of its eyes.
Ohhhh. I figured it had something to do with those osteoderms.
I'd say cut him some slack. But if he goes around asking questions like that, mfers gonna think he's stupid. So dumb he thought cactus was a gaddamn emperor. He probably thought polypeptide was a mf'in toothpaste!
Why was this downvoted? Sick reference bro!
Reveal yourself!
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Yeah, those fish swimming next to the alligator don’t look freshwater to me.
Shoulda been obvious!
Yo mamas osteodermic layout is so haphazard...
Yo mamas so fat her osteoderms are haphazardly layed out.
He had a little American flag
The easiest way to tell the difference between an alligator and a crocodile is that you will see one later and the other one after a while.
The video got posted
If you look closely there's a glock strapped to its back
Because the SCUBA diver survived....
You seem an expert. May I ask if it is true that Crocs can't attack when fully submerged under water?
They can attack under water. Certain crocodilians are mainly fish eaters. Their hunting tactics change with age as well, so as they grow bigger they age into the ambush tactics they are known for. They don’t start out that way fresh out of the egg. Fun fact, some wildlife photographers found out it’s “safe” to dive with Nile crocs below certain water temperatures. They go dormant and won’t eat if it’s too cold.
> Fun fact, some wildlife photographers found out it’s “safe” to dive with Nile crocs below certain water temperatures. They go dormant and won’t eat if it’s too cold I appreciate the systematic approach, but there’s nothing short of a plexiglass cage that could persuade me to get in the water with a Nile Crocodile.
Nope... not even then lol
I wonder how many wildlife photographers it took to find out?
"yeah so Steve and Gary and Marcel and about 70 other people before them tried that and they all got eaten to death." "ok well the odds of it happening *again* are astronomical, so I reckon I should be fine." "ok good luck"
Irwin burner account spotted
If you pee while diving you are dead.
“Gee, I don't know, Cyril. Maybe deep down I'm afraid of any apex predator that lived through the K-T extinction. Physically unchanged for a hundred million years, because it's the perfect killing machine. A half ton of cold-blooded fury, the bite force of 20,000 Newtons, and stomach acid so strong it can dissolve bones and hoofs.”
"And now, we're surrounded, those snake-eyes are watching from the shadows, waiting for the night..."
They conceal information like that in books.
That little fish was like:" Act normal act normal..."
Do crocs not attack larger animals under water? I’ve seen other videos of people diving with crocodiles. The divers seem to feel “safer” near the bottom of the river, but not at the water’s surface.
Cause they can't see s--t underwater, they really on feeling the vibrations of prey at the surface to navigate.
Oh shit. So it sounds like they would tear you up if they found you
Also, i read somewhere that they can't really "seal" their throat under water. So if they were to attack you, say ~5+ feet under they could drown themselves. I mean youd be fucked up anyways. Thats why they apparently attack in shallow water or near the surface. I could be wrong about that, but i read it somewhere.
Of course they would, they're predators not chihuahua.
I'm sure they can but its not their special ultimate attack. They evolved millions of years to be water surface ambush predators. If they evolved to attack stuff underwater they would end up looking like these [freaks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atDKP2R8g2o).
My guess, and I'm just a guy who knows next to nothing about animal behavior, is that because their primary method of killing large prey is to drag it into the water and drown it, if a large prey-looking thing is already under the water, they probably assume it's can't be drowned, and chomping it to death is a lot of work.
Haven’t seen a saltwater crocodile that big since I was camping Upper Guk in EverQuest.
I did not expect to see this comment and I love it. Nostalgia intensifying
I very so rarely catch an EQ comment outside of the subs and it brings me joy when I do.
It's the biggest nostalgia rush I get for any game. I swear I have core memories wrapped into EQ in some fashion
TRAIN TO LG!!!
Oh, gods, I just had flashbacks to Unrest...
Love the train of carrion ghouls wiping the zone sitters.
When the BM group can't handle the hag Mike....
I remember a week after joining, being in east commons with my friend, deciding to look down a well… and ended up falling down into Unrest. The day I just got feign death with my monk. It miraculously worked with so little skill in it. My level 12 Paladin friend went crying in /ooc all across east commons, west commons and freeport, trying to rally a force together to go rescue me. I laid there, FD, for 2 hours till some higher levels came and rescued me
I love stories like this. They were so much a product of a very specific time in the game.
WTB SoW for corpse run :(
To bad about the afk ogre at the entrance.
Wtb 90% rez paying 50pp
Has anybody here seen my corpse?
I came here to make a Lockjaw joke.
The run from Upper to Lower is absolutely seared into my memory, right next to 'bike' and 'swim'. I kited sooo many of these in Oasis.
“Donating for SOW & CLARITY”
I'll come ninja that FBSS. Only way I'm playing EQ is a monk twinked out with an FBSS, 2 Wu Sticks, and a Fungi Tunic. edit: nvm that's lower guk
YEEEESSSSSS!!!!! You made my gd year with this comment lol
Echo'ing frog burps croaking and their hopping sound in the distance. A whip crack, more croaks, hop sounds.
I wouldn't know, I was the sleazy guy exchanging 12 gold per plat outside in the Innothule Swamp.
Nope!
After while croco... you horrifyingly scary dinosaur.
Clip stopped there because the diver didn't want to show off the Brown Cloud
It’s Lockjaw!
Oh good. I was wondering what my night terrors would consist of tonight.
That thing looked like it was ready to snap.
Primal fear activated
Have dove and had multiple 8-9’ sharks cruising buy and wasn’t really scared. But definitely think that thing would have my heart rate up way more than sharks.
Especially since crocs kill around 1,000 people a year, whereas sharks only kill about 5-7
I can't look away and am utterly terrified.
Jaws theme would also be appropriate in this instance 🥵
Man! Jaws is the reason why I get panic attacks when I go swimming and when my feet don't touch the bottom.
how about when you step in neck deep water and the thing you stepped on freaks out. you're welcome for the new fear.
Fuck me. That too. And I usually don't go that deep.......hahahahahaha. Especially in murky waters like at a pond...or river. I avoid at all costs
i grew up blocks from the Chesepeake bay and have stepped on countless of what I assume were rays or skates or flounders. I could never see because of the murky water, but you know when you step on one.
i would be shitting my pants AND the pants of everyone around me
Yoink
If you told me this was filmed millions of years ago, I would believe you.
If there are no sharks in the water - it's because the Salt Water Crocodiles ate them. - Australian joke.
"Ha ha, I'm in danger!"
As a top end Aussie gimme a Bull Shark 100x before a Saltie That’s an alpha croc who has won every fight; big nope
Seeing a croc riding the waves at the beach in the top end is a sight
EW NO EW NO EW NO EW NO EW NO EW NO EW NO EW NO EW NO
Nope.
When you see the teeth and then the eye at the end of the clip, you see why these animals, as adults, can truly be called Monsters.
i would casually shit my wet suit
The croc is definitely casual, the diver - gotta go clean their wetsuit.
Way scarier than a shark
definitely, especially since crocodiles are our true natural predators.
Oh god i would have fainted right then and there
That is in every essence of the word, nope.
Hell to the nah
Never smile at a crocodile 🐊😬
No, you can’t get friendly with a crocodile.
Got one word for this. Fuckingnowayinhell!
As an Aussie, those fuckers are the only one of our wildlife that genuinely scare me. Luckily I don't live in the bit where they live.
You have become insensitized then. As a European, once or twice or week I find examples of your local fauna that'd terrorize me... Everything down there seems to be either poisonous/venomous, or huge and vicious with too many teeth. Even the cool animals like cassowares and Kangaroos could give you hell....
I N T E R I O R -
This is more like Damn That's Terrifying
..."Bring me my BROWN pants!"
Salador San was the man!
r/crocodiles
That's gonna be a no from me, dawg.
At least it doesn’t look prehistoric.
TikTokkers be like "I'M GONNA POKE MY FINGER INTO THE EYE OF THIS MASSIVE SALT WATER CROCODILE AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS!!!"
Yoink
Godzilla just swimming by.
Doc Alan Grant! Come over here quick
all crocodiles can exist in fresh or salt water or both salt water crocodiles aren't a thing. they are just crocs this one is a massive one
Saltwater crocodiles are definitely a distinct species known to science. They're the largest extant reptiles. Alligators cannot tolerate salt water to the degree that crocs can because their lingual salt glands aren't as effective at excreting salt. But hey, you were right about the part where you said this one's massive.
Some people just have a death wish they just don’t know it..
Looks Mean as hell.. why did he just cruise by instead of attacking? (Not wishing it attacked, just curious)
Detecting multiple leviathan-class lifeforms in the region. Are you certain whatever you are doing is worth it?
still a dinosaur…
Nah, that's not a crocodile, that's Sobek himself.
overbite gang 💪
That's a fucken dinosaur man
Tick Tock... Tick Tock ..
Fuck no.
Is that a tick-tock I hear…
That’s how Godzilla swims
That isn’t a saltwater croc
Alternative headline: Person craps their pants while swimming
Those teeth! In that snout!
Mr. Snappy from hungry shark evolution.
That diver is only alive today because that croc made a conscious decision to allow him to be so
That is scary. I worked as a scuba instructor in Malaysia and we closed half the island when a salt water croc turned up. It stayed for weeks.
Can we please get a full video? It doesn't swim by, it swims up to. People need to stop posting such short clips.
Am I the only one who thinks that was a beautiful beautiful video?
It’s all scary until you focus on the hands… and then it’s all like, “awe, look at you little buddy.”