#notosuchus

A Bonitasaura at the creek with a pair of Notosuchus.

4th installment of "Paleo Vector", a series of videos in YT with the illustration process and some information about the animal (It's in spanish)

Bajo de la Carpa Formation doodles

An Offering To The Storm Gods by Batavotyrannus

Paleontologists have known about Notosuchus for over a hundred years, but this prehistoric crocodile didn't garner much attention until a new study published in 2008 proposed an astonishing hypothesis: that Notosuchus possessed a sensitive, prehensile, pig-like snout that it used to sniff out plants from beneath the soil. On the face of it (sorry), there's no reason to doubt this conclusion: after all, convergent evolution--the tendency of different animals to evolve the same features when they occupy the same habitats--is a common theme in the history of life on earth. Still, since soft tissue doesn't preserve well in the fossil record, Notosuchus' pig-like proboscis is far from a done deal!