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19h ago
Asking this because ive heard that this thing surpasses Titanoboa but is less wide and more fragmentary, so is this thing gonna be the biggest snake till now?
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Reddit » Paleontology
19h ago
Due to the K-Pg extinction the marine mosasaurs and plesiosaurs went extinct, while the semi-aquatic crocodilians survived. However, the crocodilians seemingly didn't take over the newly opened niches and instead remained semi-aquatic with a very similar bodyplan as of those living today.
We already have a precedent of crocodylomorphs becoming fully aquatic and marine, like the metriorhynchids from the Jurassic and Cretaceous that evolved flippers and tail flukes. Yet today the crocodile most adapted to living in the sea is the saltwater crocodile, which still doesn't look nearly as adapt ..read more