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While typically thought of as strictly aquatic ambush predators, it turns out that crocodiles have a much longer and more consistent history as land animals, both during the Mesozoic and the Cenozoic. Barinasuchus, by all accounts, was the pinnacle of Cenozoic terrestrial crocodiles; surviving in South America from the Eocene to the Miocene (and possibly persisting into the Pliocene), this creature is estimated to measure up to 20 feet and weighing over a ton. Admittedly all we have is the skull, but it's taller skull and blade-shaped teeth allow us to know it hunted on land, whereas aquatic crocodiles have flatter skulls and cone-shaped teeth.

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While typically thought of as strictly aquatic ambush predators, it turns out that crocodiles have a much longer and more consistent history as land animals, both during the Mesozoic and the Cenozoic. Barinasuchus, by all accounts, was the pinnacle of Cenozoic terrestrial crocodiles; surviving in South America from the Eocene to the Miocene (and possibly persisting into the Pliocene), this creature is estimated to measure up to 20 feet and weighing over a ton. Admittedly all we have is the skull, but it's taller skull and blade-shaped teeth allow us to know it hunted on land, whereas aquatic crocodiles have flatter skulls and cone-shaped teeth.

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