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Did crocodiles coexist with dinosaurs

Updated: 10/8/2023
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Modern crocodilians evolved 83.5 million years ago, long after the dinosaurs first evolved. However, primitive animals superficially similar to crocodilians existed since long before dinosaurs evolved.

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11y ago

Yes. In fact the crocodiles then were much larger than the ones today.

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13y ago

yea , and some of them ate medium-sized dinosaurs cuz some of them were were huge

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14y ago

Very likely. Modern crocodiles are believed to have remained virtually unchanged since the late Triassic period, approx. 200 million years ago.

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13y ago

Yes they were. One big croc was deinosuchus A HUGEcrocodile that lived in the dinosaur times

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9y ago

Yes.

Although the crocs of those days were not exactly the same as today's crocs,

they were close enough for all practical purposes.

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13y ago

sarchosuchus & deinosuchus did

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