Chapter 1858: Emperor Crocodile

Chapter 1858 Emperor Crocodile

In the middle of this boulder, there is a gap like a gate. All the river water pours into the lake from this gap.

If these big fish want to enter the lake, they have to swim into the lake from the gap in the middle of the boulder.

But these big fish didn't swim into the lake from that gap, they all chose to jump out of the water from the side of the gap, and then jumped over this boulder.

This kind of scene is really amazing, it can be said that the carp leaped over the dragon's gate.

‘Dad, do you think this is a carp jumping over the dragon’s gate? ’ Feifei looked at the scene in front of him and said.

After hearing Feifei's words, Zhao Zhongyao smiled and said, 'Of course, this is the real carp leaping over the dragon's gate. '

Just when Zhao Zhongyao was talking like this, Tiantian saw that there seemed to be a small island in the middle of this lake, and on this small island, there was a huge rock. On this boulder, there is something shining.

‘Dad, look quickly, is that the amethyst gemstone we are looking for. ’ said Tian Tian, ​​pointing to the middle of the lake.

Zhao Zhongyao and Feifei looked at the middle of the lake together after hearing what Tiantian said. They both looked excited when they saw it.

‘Haha, that’s great, this is the eighth amethyst gem we are looking for. ' Zhao Zhongyao said happily.

‘Dad, what are you waiting for, can we go over and get the eighth amethyst gemstone. ’ Feifei said happily.

‘That’s right, we can go get the eighth amethyst gem. But how do we get to that island! Zhao Zhongyao said with some worry.

Feifei and Tiantian frowned after listening to their father's words. After all, there are still several hundred meters away from this place to the middle of the lake. With such a wide lake, if there are no boats, how can it be possible to go to the small island in the middle of the lake.

‘Dad, what should we do now, should we find a way to go to the small island in the middle of the lake. ’ Said Feifei.

'yes! Dad, hurry up and think of a way! ’ Feifei also said the same.

After Zhao Zhongyao heard what his son and daughter said, he began to think of a way.

But at this moment, a big monster suddenly jumped up from the water by the lake, and it rushed to Zhao Zhongyao, Feifei and Tiantian all at once.

When they saw this big monster, Zhao Zhongyao, Feifei and Tiantian were startled.

The three of them immediately turned around and ran into the distance.

This huge monster just rushed to Zhao Zhongyao and the others, and after seeing Zhao Zhongyao and the others leave, it didn't chase them anymore. He just lay down by the lake, quietly watching Zhao Zhongyao and the three of them who had run away.

When Zhao Zhongyao and Feifei still had Tiantian, they turned around and ran to a distance of forty or fifty meters from the monster, and they stopped again.

When they saw that this one monster wasn't chasing them, they didn't have to run anymore.

'Dad, what kind of monster is this? It looks like a huge crocodile. ’ Feifei felt very scared when he saw the monster in front of him. He saw that this monster looked like a crocodile, except that it was bigger and had a more slender mouth.

‘Dad, isn’t this a huge carp! ' Tiantian was also very scared, and she couldn't help hiding behind Zhao Zhongyao.

Zhao Zhongyao stared at this monster for a while, and then he said,'This is a crocodile, but it should be an imperial crocodile. '

Zhao Zhongyao has already recognized the name of a monster, which is the prehistoric river giant on earth-the emperor crocodile.

‘What, it’s an imperial crocodile. ’ Feifei looked at the monster in front of him in surprise and said.

‘That’s right, this is a prehistoric giant crocodile—the king crocodile. Zhao Zhongyao said so.

'Dad, can you tell me something about this crocodile. ’ Feifei looked at Dad curiously again and said.

'Okay, let me tell you about this prehistoric crocodile.

Tian Tian also looked at Dad in surprise, not understanding the difference between this crocodile and the current crocodile.

Next, Zhao Zhongyao said something about this imperial crocodile.

Emperor crocodile, also known as muscular crocodile, emperor crocodile, super giant crocodile, means "muscular crocodile", it is an extinct crocodile. They lived in Africa during the Early Cretaceous period and were among the largest crocodilians that ever lived.

The emperor crocodile is 8-13 meters long and weighs 4-11 tons. It mainly eats various prehistoric fish.

The emperor crocodile lived in the early Cretaceous period about 110 million years ago. It is one of the largest crocodiles that have ever lived on the earth. Its adult body length can reach 13 meters, which is completely comparable to those of theropod dinosaurs. .

Not only that, the emperor crocodile has an extremely sensitive sense of smell, and can smell the scent of prey even in the water. In addition, with its 1.8-meter-long giant mouth full of sharp teeth, even a small dinosaur will become its lover in an instant. Mouth.

Like true crocodilians, crocodilians may have had a wide range of vocalizations. The crocodile may have used these sounds to define its territory, attract mates, and communicate with its offspring.

The eye sockets of the crocodile were slightly upward, suggesting that the animal likely spent most of its time submerged in the water, observing prey on the shore. They appear to have fed on large Cretaceous fish and turtles.

The protruding jaws and strong teeth are used for grasping and crushing. Their main prey may be large animals and smaller dinosaurs. They lie in ambush in the water and drag their prey into the water.

Prey crushed, drowned, torn apart.

Dicrocodile may have had a hunting conflict with Crocodlomisaurus found in the same formation. Crocodile-like dinosaur was a theropod dinosaur with a maximum length of 12 meters and a jaw similar to that of a crocodile. Because the animals were so large, they could have easily preyed on small and medium-sized dinosaurs, including juveniles of the long-necked, small-headed gigantic sauropods in Africa, Paul Serino claims.

Other crocodile biologists doubted the giant animal's ability to hunt. The long, thin snout of the imperial crocodile closely resembled the narrow snouts of modern gharials, pseudogharials, and stenotic crocodiles, all of which were fish-eating species that could not track large prey.

Compared with modern Nile crocodiles and extinct Deinocrocodiles, both Nile crocodiles and Deinocrocodiles have very broad and thick skulls, which are suitable for biting large prey. Because of the large population of finfish in the area at the time, many experts believe that the crocodile was just a large fish-eating animal, a scaly version of the modern gharial, rather than a dinosaur-killer.

However, juvenile crocodilians had similar snout widths to modern narrow-snout crocodilians, but adults had extremely extended snouts. When calculating the snout-to-body ratio, the crocodile is narrower than the Nile crocodile, but still wider than the gharial. In addition, the teeth of the crocodile were not interlaced like most fish-eating crocodiles, suggesting that it ate mainly fish, supplemented by land animals, like the Nile crocodile.

Common fin fishes that live in the same waters as the emperor crocodile often exceed 1.8 meters in length and weigh up to 90 kilograms. This raised the possibility of preying on large or medium-sized land animals rather than large fish, many of which have a protective layer of intradermal bone formation.

In the Early Cretaceous period 110 million years ago, the Sahara Desert was a tropical plain with lakes scattered on it, rivers and streams flowing through it, and the banks were covered with vegetation.

Modern true crocodiles are very similar in size and appearance, and tend to live in different regions; Emperor crocodile is one of the crocodilians, which are very different in size and appearance, and most of them live in the same region. Four crocodilians were found in the same rock formations as the crocodile, including a dwarf crocodile with an 8-centimeter-long head.

They occupy diverse and distinct ecological niches rather than competing with each other for food resources.

Calculated according to the formula including hippopotamus and removing African elephants, the weight is not bad. The legs of the emperor crocodile should actually be strong enough. For example, the circumference of a 2000kg male hippopotamus is about 450mm, and the circumference of the emperor muscle crocodile is assumed to be 580mm, even if it is enlarged by an index of 2.733 , The theoretical value is also about 4000kg.

Therefore, even if its land mobility is calculated as a semi-upright, it still has some mobility capabilities of a hippopotamus, and the pelvic ilium of the imperial muscular crocodile is much wider than that of real crocodiles, and can attach more muscles.

Therefore, it should be considered that the imperial muscular crocodile can sometimes move on land like the Raui's crocodile and Fasola crocodile, catch a sauropod cub that can be swallowed by itself, and migrate between fisheries, rather than always in the water Swimming inside to ambush prey.

Previous paleontological surveys believed that dinosaurs were not the only rulers on the earth about 110 million years ago. Paleontologists at the University of Chicago recently unearthed the fossil of a giant crocodile in the Tenere Desert in Niger. This crocodile is the "king of crocodiles".

At the same time, these researchers were surprised to find that this crocodile that lives in the water can be called a "monster". It is about meters long and weighs 10 tons. Moreover, this crocodile lived in the same period as the dinosaurs - the Cretaceous period, and was one of the most ferocious carnivores at that time.

What surprised the researchers even more was that such crocodiles shared the warm climate of the Cretaceous with dinosaurs in the ancient times when dinosaurs were rampant. It can prey on dinosaurs mainly because it has a very special body structure. Its snout ends with a large, bulbous protrusion with a cavity inside.

This makes it have a very keen sense of smell and can make strange sounds. Moreover, the teeth of this super crocodile are also extraordinary. Compared with animals that generally feed on fish, its lower teeth not only intersect with the upper teeth, but also can be embedded in them accurately. Among the more than 100 teeth, a row of front teeth can crush bone and tear like a small dinosaur. Also, its eyes are tilted up inexplicably.

In addition, the crocodile's skin also has a layer of flaky bone "armor". These "armors" not only mark the age of the crocodile like tree rings, but also protect the crocodile from harm while hunting its prey.

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