An illustration of a white fluffy furry crocodile with a clown nose dressed as Pennywise from the It movies, wearing a grey ruffly outfit with red pom poms
🎈🤡 𝙷𝙸𝚈𝙰 𝙶𝙴𝙾𝚁𝙶𝙸𝙴 𝚠𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚊 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚢 𝙵𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚗𝚒𝚝𝚎? 🎈
Happy Halloween, hope you had an excellent #Croctober <3 🎃
Artwork of Krossbow. Basically Klingers from DKC2 donning the Robin Hood costume, they reside in the treetop levels throughout the game and would shoot you as you ascend. Not much else to say, just that the climbing mechanics are dumbed down in DKC3 (what happened to climbing up two ropes at once).
(Thread, Part 14)
Krossbow*
#Croctober
The Dwarf Crocodile (Osteolaemus tetraspis) is the smallest crocodile, not even reaching 5 feet long. They are listed by the IUCN Red List as Vulnerable to Extinction.
#Croctober 🐊
📸 wikiuser Thesupermat
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Happy #FossilFriday! It’s the last day of #Croctober so check out this amazing cast Macrospondylus 🐊, from the #Jurassic of #Germany at the Science Museum of Minnesota! It lived about 180 million years ago and would have spent nearly its whole life at sea, & even had super reduced front legs!
The Chinese Alligator (Alligator sinensis) is a critically endangered animal found only in China. #Croctober 🐊
📸 J. Patrick Fischer
learn more at gonefroggin.com/2023/10/08/c...
Lots of stuff going on so I'll keep #Croctober Day 30 a simple one
Here's a photo I took myself of the 4 meter Tomistoma male that was kept at the Vienna Aquarium until not too long ago
Diagram showing the preserved portions of Olkasuchus. Image 1 shows preserved parts of teh spine, hips and limbs in red, image 2 highlights the known preserved parts of the body armor. Images 3 and 4 show the actual fossil material.
Day 29 of #Croctober has given us another newcommer: Olkasuchus walasto, a new aetosaur from the Argentinian Los Colorados Formation
doi.org/10.1080/0891...
In this #Croctober, I started another iNaturalist project on crocodilians 🐊, this time focusing on individuals living with injury/pathology...A little thread🧵 ahead 1/4
www.inaturalist.org/projects/cro...
The Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) is found along the Nile River but also across most of southern Africa.
#Croctober 🐊
📸 Wayne and Pam Osborn
learn more at buff.ly/nIQsnoD
Day 28 of #Croctober, we're racing towards the finish line
This is one of my favourite images of Dakosaurus for two reasons
Reason 1: it nicely shows just how enormous this animal got
Reason 2: it also shows how stupidly tiny its arms were
Photo by Sven Sachs ft. Joschua Knüppe
DAY 27 OF #Croctober IS FRESH OFF THE PRESS
Meet Wadisuchus, published literally just this morning by Sara Saber and colleagues, a new decently sized (3-4 meter roughtly) dyrosaurid from Campanian Egypt, the oldest of its family.
Art by Nathan Dehaut
Lets keep this going on Day 26 of #Croctober
Simosuchus was not the only notosuchian with complex teeth. Look no further than Pakasuchus, which straight up just mirrors mammalian dentition down to the grinding molars.
Illustrations by Smokeybjb and Zina Deretsky
Since we are still on #croctober here is a little Benggwigwishingasuchus eremicarminis (jesus what a name)
#paleoart #sciart #Benggwigwishingasuchus #poposaurus #triassic #croc
#Croctober Day 25
Everyone loves Simosuchus. But did you ever take a closer look at its teeth? Well if you did then you'd see that they are quite complex, fitting its herbivorous diet.
They also look a bit like those of some modern iguanas (pic on the right)
I'm taking the principled stand of no longer use the term False Gharial but instead the Malayan Gharial. It's not false, they are just a little different... I hope yall join me #Croctober 🐊
📸 James Steamer
learn more about the Malayan Gharial at buff.ly/EpMjKmB
Day 24 of #Croctober
Among the most impressive crocs I've seen first hand is the pair of Indian gharials on exhibit in the NHM Vienna. The male measures almost 5.5 meters and has been part of the collection since the early 1900s.
Full Sarcosuchus skull
Close up on the lower jaw.
Tip of the snout
Sarcosuchus skull undergoing preparation.
Sarcosuchus imperator, aka “Supercroc” as seen at the University of Chicago Fossil Lab. both a full reconstruction and one still in a plaster field jacket. #Croctober #fossilfriday 🐊
Happy #FossilFriday! It’s #Croctober, so check out these #fossil teeth of Thoracosaurus at the Science Museum of Minnesota, an extinct #croc from the end of the age of the #dinosaurs and a bit after, that’s right, it survived the mass extinction! All from #SouthCarolina!
www.modernretail.co/technology/c... #Crocs live streaming #TikTok #retail #Croctober #shoes #shopping
A complete specimen of Caririsuchus preserved in a slab. It has an elongated crocodile-like head, short limbs, two rows of scutes down its back and a heavily armored tail.
Today is day 23 of #Croctober
And for this purpose I want to make you mad.
This is Caririsuchus.
This specimen was taken from Brazil and sold to a private collector. It is as of right now lost to science.
Artwork of Kommodore X. Not an OC this time, as this is based on the scrapped Mr. X character for DKC2. It took some thought on what to place him in, as K. Rool was already a Captain, and Commander sounds higher than Baron. At the last minute, turns out Commodore is higher than Commander; and yet the only saving grace for Rool's importance is nobility. Anywho, incorporating Kommodore X is basically having him be the one to commandeer the Knautilus. And you do fight him numerous times throughout the overworld, with each fight giving you a clue to finding Krematoa (of course, a veteran player of DKC3 would be able to raise the world beforehand). Upon completing all the worlds and scuttling the Knautilus, you fight Kommodore in person. To avoid a rehash of K. Roolenstein's fight, Kommodore's is a combination of both Kudgel and Kleaver's fight from DKC2; a few volleys of attacks (including some while he is in the background, the one element from the vanillage game I'd incorporate) and you are handed a steel barrel to smite him.
(Thread, Part 13)
Kommodore X
#Croctober
Did you know there's a species of crocodile in the US? The American Crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) can be found in Florida! They also can be all the way down to Venezuela. A pretty impressive range. #Croctober 🐊
📸 wikiuser Mattstone911
learn more at buff.ly/8dyCSU2
#Croctober Day 22
Alligators are among the less diverse crocs today, only boasting two species from China and the USA respectively.
However during the Mid Pleistocene there was also Alligator munensis, a small species form from Thailand
Art by Michael Tripoli
#inktober2025 #drawtober Croctober day 5 - Araripesuchus
#Croctober #Crocodilians #crocodiles #Araripesuchus #Cretaceous #Extinct #inktober #PaleoArt #SciArt #ArtYear #ArtShare #BskyArt #Art #Artist
Day 21 of #Croctober
While modern caimans are almost seen as a joke by some people, one doesn't have to go to the Miocene to still find impressive species.
Black caimans can surpass even American alligators in length and are capable of preying on dolphins
Video by tuenio_costa
Croctober day 4 - Stomatosuchus🐊
Stomatosuchus had a long, flat jaw with a huge throat pouch similar to a pelican's, its jaw was toothless and its upper jaw had small teeth
#Croctober #Stomatosuchus #crocodiles #Crocodilians #Extinct #SciArt #PaleoArt #inktober #ArtYear #ArtShare #BskyArt #Art
Making it snappy. #gharial #croctober 🐊
For #Croctober Day 20 I want to shout out some fun etymology. To the left you see Paludirex, a large mekosuchine who's name means "swamp king". On the right is Gunggamarandu, which translates to "river boss".
Both have been named by Jorgo Ristevski
Art by Eleanor Pease
Pops the alligator at Gatorland. He was a hatchling when the park opened in 1949. He apparently is also a movie star, having appeared in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
That film takes place in India (filmed in Sri Lanka), where crocodiles live. What were you thinking Spielberg?! #croctober 🐊
