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Jouve and colleagues suggested in 2008 that juvenile marine crocodyliforms lived in freshwater environments as do modern marine crocodile juveniles, which would have helped them survive where other marine reptiles became extinct; freshwater environments were not so strongly affected by the K–Pg extinction event as marine environments were. [119]
Artist's rendering of the Chicxulub asteroid entering Earth's atmosphere 66 million years ago, triggering events that caused a mass extermination. Roger Harris/Science Photo library via Getty ...
Crocodylomorpha in the modern sense, as defined by Paul Sereno in 2005, is phylogenetically defined as the most inclusive clade containing Crocodylus niloticus (the Nile crocodile), but not Rauisuchus tiradentes, Poposaurus gracilis, Gracilisuchus stipanicicorum, Prestosuchus chiniquensis, or Aetosaurus ferratus.
Some deep sea creatures somehow managed to survive the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
Stukely affirmed its "diluvial" nature but understood it represented some sea creature, perhaps a crocodile or dolphin. [11] The specimen is today on display at the Natural History Museum, and its inventory number is NHMUK PV R.1330 (formerly BMNH R.1330). It is the earliest discovered more or less complete fossil reptile skeleton in a museum ...
Analysis of attacks show that most take place when crocodiles are guarding nests or newly hatched young. [153] Saltwater crocodiles have been implicated in over 1300 attacks between 2010 and 2020 with almost half being fatal. [152] Attacks may come from animals of various sizes, but the larger males are generally responsible for fatalities.
During the Triassic, amphibians were mainly represented by large, crocodile-like members of the order Temnospondyli. Although the earliest lissamphibians (modern amphibians like frogs and salamanders ) did appear during the Triassic, they would become more common in the Jurassic while the temnospondyls diminished in diversity past the Triassic ...
A new study just announced that we are most likely safe from world-ending asteroid impacts for the next 1,000 years. Whew: We're Not Going to Die in an Asteroid Attack for At Least 1,000 Years ...