Check this out:


The Age of Dinosaurs may have been dominated by dinosaurs, but they certainly weren't the only fearsome creatures around. A series of remarkable discoveries by a team led by Paul Sereno, a paleontologist at the University of Chicago and a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, has made it clear that another, less celebrated group of animals lived alongside the dinos, and sometimes even dined on those better-known cousins.


http://www.time.com/time/...ml?cnn=yes

Cool!

How is prehistoric croc NOT a dinosaur?

PREDOMINANT said:

Well, pterodactyls were not dinosaurs. Pterodactyls were flying reptiles. So a croc would be a prehistoric reptile, not a dinosaur.

JustErin said:

Doesn't dinosaur mean "terrible lizard" aren't lizards reptiles? I must admit it is a branch of science I am not clear on.

PREDOMINANT said:

I dunno, all I know is my son watches a show called Dinosaur Train and they explained that Pterodactyls were not dinosaurs but flying reptiles called Pterosaurs and sea reptiles were called Plesiosaurs.

I believe that Dinosaurs were actually avian, not reptiles.

JustErin said:

I think technically Avis belongs to Reptilia. My son is two young to have any input, he said "don't be silly daddy, dinosaurs are no more and crocodiles still exsist" Can't argue with that!



Why is nobody else intrested in this thread? Maybe if the Dinos were having sex with the crocs it would have more intrest?

PREDOMINANT said:

We're the only 2 nerds in here!

JustErin said:

lol.....

PREDOMINANT said:

Dino's are reptiles per say, they are the appeared after the age of repitile and maybe the transition between reptile and avian

ehuffnsd said:

Dinosaurs and birds ;

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...n_of_birds

uPtoWnNY said:

right i said dinos are the transition between reptile and avian.

We're up to Nerd Factor 5 now.

I think I'm starting to get a little turned on.

ehuffnsd said:

So reptile is at the top of the phylogenetic tree

Reptilia
Diosaura (Sp?)
Avis (Car rental company)

JustErin said:

You're smarter than you look

So now that is established, back to my first comment/question, are prehistoric crocs actually dinosaurs? Or did the genetic divergence come before our friend here:

Cinnie said:

No flirting, this is geek only space.

those ARE super crocs

Cinnie said:

Which evolved from the traditional flip flop or thong.


Nobody really knows when this transition took place, or indeed became acceptable.

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