Super Croc Unleashed

Have you ever wondered what lurked under the water 110 million years ago?What mysterious creature feasted on the fish and helpless  small dinosaurs?Who hunted its prey as he pleased?SuperCroc that's who!He ravaged the land ,searching for that one dinosaur that would "prance" into his stomach.This deadly creature weighed 8-10 tons or 17,500 lbs.He was as long as a N.Y.C. bus!!Wow, that's amazing! The first remains were discovered during several expeditions lead by the French paleontologist,  Albert-Félix de Lapparent, spanning from 1946 to 1959 in the Sahara Desert.I got this information from" wikapedia"

    In my opinion , supercroc is amazing.Based on all the facts that I have read, being a "fierce" tyrannosaurus rex would n't of done me any good.In the text; "SuperCroc"Fossil Found In Sahara,his jaws were nearly six feet long!How long is six feet?Well just imagine one of the many humongous basketball players, they are about 6'4 and Supercrocs head is "that" large!

SuperCroc

SuperCroc

(Originally published in the December 2001 issue of National Geographic)

By Paul Sereno

National Geographic Grantee

Photograph by Mike Hettwer

We had never seen anything like it. With brushes and awls we teased away the rock encasing its fossilized jaws. They were huge, each about as long as an adult human. Yet the animal that had once wielded these jaws was not a dinosaur. It was a colossal crocodilian.

We had come to hunt dinosaur bones in the Sahara's legendary fossil graveyard, a remote windswept stretch of rock and dunes called Gadoufaoua. In Tamashek, the language of the desert's Tuareg people, Gadoufaoua means "the place where camels fear to tread." For fossil hunters it means paradise—the richest dinosaur beds on the African continent. Now less than an hour into our four-month expedition we were face-to-face with an ancient croc that could have posed a serious threat to any dinosaur within reach.-information from :  http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/09/supercroc/sereno-text                                                            

                1. Sarcosuchus was technically a "pholidosaur."

Its nickname aside, the SuperCroc wasn't really a crocodile at all, but rather a prehistoric crocodileancestor known as a "pholidosaur." (By contrast, the similarly gigantic Deinosuchus was in the crocodile family, though it was technically an alligator.) Confused? Don't worry, so are many paleontologists!                                                    

                      2.Supercroc had 5  cousins;  Boarcroc, Ratcroc,Pancakecroc, Dogcroc, and Duckcroc .                                                                                                                                          Boarcrocs  horrific face.         Ratcroc's spinechilling growl                                                        Flat  Pancakecroc.                                Terrorizing Dogcroc.          Quacking Duckcroc.     3.Male supercrocs nose is a golf-like figure;  4.Supercoc was known to 132 teeth humans have 100 less.                                                 5.Supercroc has been first found in Africa.                                                 6.Like modern crocodiles supercrocs eye sockets rotated upward.                        7.Supercroc has a amor felt back, with hard plates.                                               8.Supercroc was also named sarcosuchas                                                          9.Supercroc most likely died of a disease                                                         10.Supercroc lifespan was for about 50 -60 years                                                           For more information please visit;http://dinosaurs.about.com/od/otherprehistoriclife/a/Sarcosuchus-Facts.htm    And  National geography .com/supercroc.