Fascinatingly Cuban crocodile are actually terrestrial adept carnivores and were living in fully terrestrial ecosystems in the past on the Bahamas, and Dominican Republic, and were also found even in the Cayman Islands as well. Regarding the terrestrial nature of the Cuban crocodile, a paper studying the bones of Cuban crocodiles from the blue holes in the Bahamas, looked at the stable isotopes found in the bones of these Cuban crocodile fossils, and they found that Cuban crocodiles were living in a terrestrial food web rather than aquatic. The paper is called “domination by reptiles in a terrestrial food web of the Bahamas prior to human occupation.” They have many adaptations namely there tall deep broad skull long recurved compressed teeth, crooked bite margins, heavily keeled limbs and many osteoderms, shorter tail, long very powerful legs and arms. The ones at the guama crocodile farm have the most important genetics, having the most terrestrial features, and more expressed features, and the ones at the guama croc farm have Insane squamosal horns, looking very much like a living voay robustus. Cuban crocodiles are the closest modern analogy to quinkana, and other terrestrial mekosuchines, sebecids, and Planocraniids. Also the best way to conserve the Cuban crocodile would be to selectively breed the ones for the guama croc farm which have the most genetic diversity and terrestrial genes having the longest limb proportions, agility, speed, and morphological features. And Eventually starting a rewilding reintroduction plan into terrestrial landscapes they once’s inhabited like the Bahamas, but they would first need to reintroduced the other key stone species like Hutia rodents, rock iguanas, red footed and yellow footed tortoises, flightless rails, and so forth. There has actually been talks, plans of reintroducing Cuban crocodiles back into terrestrial landscapes of the Bahamas it was in an article called “rewilding reptiles to eco engineer the anthropocene.” Also Cuban crocodiles from the guama crocodile farm stock would also be a good taxon substitute for the terrestrial ziphodont land crocodile quinkana. On a final note it’s quite intriguing that another giant sebecid was found during that time period and location, super cool find , hope they find more complete post cranial terrestrial croc fossils. Also fun fact, they found another ziphodont land crocodile in Australia Plesitocene age, related to quinkana with a well preserved skull and is yet to be published the preview paper is called “A new ziphodont eusuchian from the Pleistocene of Queensland, and implications for Australasia's ziphodont crocodylian diversity”
awsome video! already love the series, cant wait for the voay lol rlly this might be one of your top 10 vids so far by you i think (might climb higher) really nice!
I really appreciate it! I’m very proud of the script but I definitely think my editing and line delivery can improve. Hopefully as I get more confident in my crocodile narration the vids will improve!
The Biology And Evolution Of Crocodylians is a pretty great book, it’s not cheap but god is it well reviewed. I haven’t read it myself but I think it’s good for someone desiring further reading :)
Fascinatingly Cuban crocodile are actually terrestrial adept carnivores and were living in fully terrestrial ecosystems in the past on the Bahamas, and Dominican Republic, and were also found even in the Cayman Islands as well. Regarding the terrestrial nature of the Cuban crocodile, a paper studying the bones of Cuban crocodiles from the blue holes in the Bahamas, looked at the stable isotopes found in the bones of these Cuban crocodile fossils, and they found that Cuban crocodiles were living in a terrestrial food web rather than aquatic. The paper is called “domination by reptiles in a terrestrial food web of the Bahamas prior to human occupation.” They have many adaptations namely there tall deep broad skull long recurved compressed teeth, crooked bite margins, heavily keeled limbs and many osteoderms, shorter tail, long very powerful legs and arms. The ones at the guama crocodile farm have the most important genetics, having the most terrestrial features, and more expressed features, and the ones at the guama croc farm have Insane squamosal horns, looking very much like a living voay robustus. Cuban crocodiles are the closest modern analogy to quinkana, and other terrestrial mekosuchines, sebecids, and Planocraniids. Also the best way to conserve the Cuban crocodile would be to selectively breed the ones for the guama croc farm which have the most genetic diversity and terrestrial genes having the longest limb proportions, agility, speed, and morphological features. And Eventually starting a rewilding reintroduction plan into terrestrial landscapes they once’s inhabited like the Bahamas, but they would first need to reintroduced the other key stone species like Hutia rodents, rock iguanas, red footed and yellow footed tortoises, flightless rails, and so forth. There has actually been talks, plans of reintroducing Cuban crocodiles back into terrestrial landscapes of the Bahamas it was in an article called “rewilding reptiles to eco engineer the anthropocene.” Also Cuban crocodiles from the guama crocodile farm stock would also be a good taxon substitute for the terrestrial ziphodont land crocodile quinkana. On a final note it’s quite intriguing that another giant sebecid was found during that time period and location, super cool find , hope they find more complete post cranial terrestrial croc fossils. Also fun fact, they found another ziphodont land crocodile in Australia Plesitocene age, related to quinkana with a well preserved skull and is yet to be published the preview paper is called “A new ziphodont eusuchian from the Pleistocene of Queensland, and implications for Australasia's ziphodont crocodylian diversity”
Can't wait to see the rest of the series, good job!
Thank you! I’m excited to work on it!
New world crocodiles are so strange and awesome. Glad to see another upload!
Yes they are! Thank you for the support!
Had no idea temperature affected the gender, super interesting. Crocodiles are very cool
Thanks for watching. Crocodiles are life!
This is one of your best videos
I really appreciate that I’m very proud of it, it’s been one of the longest to research but editing was surprisingly simple.
@@GeorgeTheDinoGuy I am almost done with the script about alligators for you. You will love it
Oh wow thank you lol, the Voay is coming first 😅
@@GeorgeTheDinoGuy sure
You should do a video on the mysteries myths and marvels of the Orinoco crocodile!
Just been recommended your channel on my home page. What a nice surprise. I love them depth and detail of your videos
Thank you I really appreciate that. I try my best 😅
awsome video! already love the series, cant wait for the voay lol
rlly this might be one of your top 10 vids so far by you i think (might climb higher) really nice!
I really appreciate it! I’m very proud of the script but I definitely think my editing and line delivery can improve. Hopefully as I get more confident in my crocodile narration the vids will improve!
Do you have any books on crocodilians you recommend?
The Biology And Evolution Of Crocodylians is a pretty great book, it’s not cheap but god is it well reviewed. I haven’t read it myself but I think it’s good for someone desiring further reading :)
@@GeorgeTheDinoGuy thanks! I've got that one!
Hey George can I write the script for both caimans and alligators as well as Indian and false Gharials?
No sorry. I’d prefer to work on them myself. Thanks though.
@@GeorgeTheDinoGuy well, then I will just work on the alligator script
Crocodylus falconensis is a sister taxa to Crocodylus checchiai
Ah I should’ve mentioned it 😅
@@GeorgeTheDinoGuy yeah
Calling it the new world is kinda funny in this context