From the sky, our earth is a beautiful planet of azure, full of tranquility. In fact, the surface of the earth is always a dark tide.
On this planet, there have been countless monsters that have appeared. They all once stood at the top of the food chain, looking out over all their prey. Fortunately, many of the top predators appeared in different eras, so they did not meet and cause a certain kind of annihilation in the river of history. One wonders what would have happened if monsters from different prehistory had met.
Today, let's talk about the ocean, if the two fiercest underwater predators in history, the dragon and the crocodile, meet, who can win?
Crocodiles, which lived in the Region of North America in the Late Cretaceous Period, are one of the largest crocodiles in history.
In 1954, biologist Ned Colbert studied the 2-meter-long jaw fossil of a crocodile and deduced that to support such a large jaw, the crocodile itself might have to reach a terrifying 15 meters in length!
Later, some scientists came to a different conclusion, believing that the crocodile was only about 12 meters and weighed about 7 tons, but it was also far beyond the size of modern crocodiles.
Due to its huge size and the age of its existence (the Cretaceous Period, the last years of dinosaur existence), scientists deduce that the crocodile's prey is likely to be a dinosaur!
According to scientists, the bite force of the crocodile can reach a terrifying 1835 kg, which is almost 10% more than the modern crocodile record of 1673.8 kg! Even the top killer of the dinosaurs, T.B. Rex, probably didn't have such an amazing bite force.
Canglong, also existing in the Cretaceous Period, provides the possibility for the two to meet.
The size of the dragon was even more shocking than that of the crocodile, reaching more than 20 meters and weighing more than 33 tons!
After studying the fossils of the dragon, scientists believe that the way the dragon swims may resemble a crocodile. Don't look at its huge size, but its maximum swimming speed may reach 48 kilometers per hour.
Since the discovery of the first fossil of canglong, there have been reports of the discovery of canglong fossils all over the world. Scientists have deduced that about 70 million years ago, all the oceans of the earth were "hell" under the rule of the dragon.
Moreover, like crocodiles, the dragon breathes through the lungs, so it does not enter the deep sea too much, but moves in the shallow sea area. Its prey range is very wide, not only the plesiosaurs or sharks in the sea, but also the lizards on the ground and even the pterosaurs in the sky, which are also the dishes of the dragons.
Unlike the network image that everyone usually sees, scientists believe that the limbs of the dragon are not completely like oars, but also have knuckles at the end, which is more convenient for them to move on land.
In terms of bite force, the crocodile may be slightly better than the dragon; but if compared by size, the dragon undoubtedly has the upper hand.
If the two meet, who do you think is better?