(April 17, 2017 at 10:16 pm)Fireball Wrote: I'm not a biologist, but what little reading I have done in that area says that Crocodilians predate dinosaurs by some large number of years. Isn't that so? I have a wicked cold (and listening to Black Sabbath), so I don't feel like scavenging the intertubes for factuality.
No. True crocodilians first appeared very late into the era of dinosaurs. But many ancestors of crocodilians looked pretty crocodile like, and the last common ancestor of dinosaurs and crocodiles lived not long before when the first dinosaur appeared.
