The Largest Predator To Walk During The Cretaceous Wasn't A Dinosaur?

If you to travelled back to North America, anywhere from 83 to 77 million years ago, you would find the lands covered with dinosaurs, many of which were giant. However, they wouldn't be the largest things you could 'run' into, as during those times that largest creature in North America was not a dinosaur, but rather a crocodilian, the Deinosuchus.

0:00 Intro
0:47 Discovery/Naming & Misclassification
1:25 original length estimate
2:00 The Four Known Deinosuchus Species
2:14 Size Estimates
3:11 Deinosuchus Vs. Sarcosuchus & Purussaurus (size)
3:34 Huge Deinosuchus Specimens
4:16 Modern Crocodillians Versus Deinosuchus
4:35 Deinosuchus Classification
5:00 What It Looked Like
5:38 Bite Force
6:55 Evidence That It Hunted Dinosaurs
7:42 Deinosuchus Limited How Big Other Predators Got
7:59 Ambushing & Death Roll Capabilities
8:17 Populations of Small-Sized Deinosuchus Across America
8:42 Growth Rate
9:01 Armor
9:41 Range & Habitat
10:12 Coexistence With The Mosasaurs
10:51 Animals It Lived With
12:16 Extinction
12:51 Special Announcement

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