I believe that the friends who have read the article I posted before, everyone has almost understood this terrible giant snake, just now the Amazon River is slowly swallowing the prey it has just killed, but the local changes are different.
Animals of the Serrejon Formation in South America
When the Titan Giant Crab was first discovered, it was hotter than when the Tyrannosaurus Rex was first discovered, so scientists believe that it was called the Titan Giant Crab, and the "Titan" in the name indicates that it is the largest and fiercest of the suborder snakes. In fact, the larger the snake is relatively not particularly fierce, look at the forest hopper, there is no record of harming people, reticulated python, African rock python and Burmese python have.
Of course, there are no absolutes, what if the Titans really won't let go of animals that can be killed?
Titan crab is the largest non-marine vertebrate besides the chewing turtle crocodile at that time, unearthed in the Serehun coal mine in South America, the Titan crab will survive in a dense rainforest environment, the source of this part of the coal mine may have been formed in that era, the environment at that time is somewhat similar to the Carboniferous giant insect age, the climate is warm.
However, titans were not Carboniferous, and the earliest reptiles of the Late Carboniferous period evolved from a group of amphibians, and with the ancestors of mammals, the Zygopods, became the first vertebrates to rule the continent, and the Permian was also the last Period of the Paleozoic. But to a brain-opening topic, we say every day who is the same size and weight, have you not thought about arthropods? Ants, praying mantises and spiders are not of the same size better than other vertebrates? Titans are larger than arthropods, so what if Titans lived until the Carboniferous?
In the neohistory period after the extinction of the dinosaurs, because the forest family where the chewing turtle crocodile is located survived in the Late Cretaceous, after the Cretaceous mass extinction, has been developing in the Paleocene, so in addition to the chewing turtle crocodile, the Titan crab is able to weigh more than 1 ton in terrestrial animals, and the same as the dragon, it can also be described as a sudden rise, it directly divided the ecological niche of the crocodile part in Colombia, due to the Extinction of the Titan Crab and the Forest Crocodile due to the Paleocene extreme heat events, but it is also the most powerful scaly dragon species in addition to the Dragon.
Cretaceous mass extinction
So speaking of which, if the Titan crab really returns to the modern Amazon, can it still dominate?
Let's start with amazon's more well-known carnivores
Black Caiman
The largest member of the extant caiman subfamily, the black caiman is 5.5 m, 850 kg, which is the largest individual, averaging 12-3 m long, the larger one is 4 m. It is the fifth largest crocodile in size and the third in combat effectiveness.
Black caimans are the strongest predators, jaguars generally avoid and oversized black caimans, killing the average size of black caimans, but black caimans have no record of killing jaguars, it may be that black caimans prefer to stay in the water, jaguar cubs will stay in the bushes to prevent predators from invading
Black caimans also kill other caiman subfamilies, as do species similar to the chewing turtle crocodile and other subfamilies.
Due to its perennial poaching, the black caiman is not as protected as the bay crocodile and the Nile crocodile, and its cortical is extremely precious, and the number of black caimans is endangered
jaguar
The jaguar is the third largest surviving cat and the largest cat in the Americas, weighing up to 150 kilograms, and the detailed data is based on previously published articles. The jaguar's distribution is also limited to South America, but in addition to the Amazon, Brazil and Colombia also have its distribution, even in Costa Rica, it has also met with the second largest cat in the Americas, the mountain lion, in Belize, the jaguar has killed the mountain lion. Mountain lions generally appear in high mountains, grasslands and deserts, contrary to the habits of jaguars
Jaguars can kill adult black caimans, as well as other caimans, some animals with hard shell protection are not a problem, derived from the jaguar's short snout attached to a large number of strong masseter muscles, which is incomparable to the mountain lion, so the jaguar can live in the rainforest with ease, it is not a leopard, but stronger than the leopard, even if the size is comparable, the leopard is obviously inferior to the jaguar
South American otter
Otters are known as wolves in the water: the only narrow predators to compete with crocodiles for freshwater niches, and they also hunt and kill pomfrets. Because of their social presence, jaguars don't provoke them either, and even beat caimans and water nymphs in groups
Otters are also potential prey for black caimans, and when black caimans appear, capybaras and other aquatic animals swim ashore to avoid more powerful predators, and once they are left alone, they are also hunted by jaguars, caimans and water bugs
Arapaima
Probably the largest freshwater carnivorous fish, the Arapaima is 4 m long and weighs an estimated 200 kg, and it is once considered a natural enemy of piranhas, named after the nacropod carp
Arapaima scales are hard and flexible, able to resist piranha bites, the head is particularly hard, in south American fishing grounds, there are cases of crushing human sternum, predators will generally swallow in one bite
Forest hopper
The largest snake today, the Mori Crab weighs 160 kilograms at 6 meters, which is larger than the reticulated python, and Medusa is still in captivity, in the name of hunting caimans, in fact, its staple food is not caimans at all
The forest nymph is short and thick, has killed otters, capybaras and big cats, and is sometimes hunted by jaguars and larger caimans, the black caiman may be its natural enemy, this guy unilaterally killed the forest nymph, which belongs to the basal primitive species and does not give up the ability to strangle
caiman
This guy is known as the "shame" of crocodiles, often killed, and has not killed a bigger predator stronger than him, but there are 1.8 meters of glasses Caiman headshots 5 meters of forest hoppers.
(Don't bar, this forest crab is not in good shape)
Caimans generally refer to bottlenose caimans, spectacled caimans and Paraguayan caimans, widely distributed, pantana wetland glasses caimans more than the North Australian Bay crocodile, crowded shore piled with a group of caimans, breeding in staggering numbers
Bull sharks
Don't think it's strange, bull sharks have the ability to survive in fresh water, most marine sharks will have internal organs rupture when they enter fresh water, but bull sharks have salt glands to store salt, which can make it survive in fresh water for a long time, and some adult bull sharks even live in fresh water forever. Bull sharks are generally considered to be the sharks that kill the most people, but there are not as many as great white sharks, and there is no confirmation that bull sharks do dare to provoke great white sharks, but it does kill slightly smaller sharks, which are not suitable for neighbors.
Although bull sharks generally do not enter the river, the largest bull shark in the world is from the Budd River in South Africa, 4 meters long and weighs 230 kilograms, and the record for the sea is 3 meters, 140 kilograms more, from Bimini Island in the Bahamas. Both have been introduced in documentaries, one from Uncle Jay and one from Andy.
Then the Titan crab back to the present, is it really targeted everywhere, to be upset?
The answer is: kill!
Titan's return to the current Amazon is afraid that it is not to see the gods and kill the gods, if it is not for environmental reasons, it is unparalleled, and its first throne does not dare to be second.
This thing is 1.5 times larger than the black caiman, the titan crab distribution waters, the jaguar will not dare to go into the water It is the spinosaurus of North Africa, relying on its size to crush everything
Body size is very important for narrow predators, even if the structural gap is large, and the Titan crab basically kills when it wants, and it cannot be killed without it.
Not to mention that it is only in the Amazon, only a few large pinnipeds can do it on land, and the bay crocodile can only open 55 with it