What the hell is Simosuchus!? Just a cute little notosuchian crocodylomorph.

I'm surprised this animal is new to so many folks. In the herp community (people who keep reptiles and amphibians) this has long been a "dream pet" on the extinct species wishlist. A dwarf vegetarian crocodilian with a snub face and a smile. They'd be more numerous in Florida and in the pet trade than green iguanas! ;-)

Adorable, that's what it is.

I can honestly see Simosuchus positively erupting in popularity after Prehistoric Planet 2. What's not to like? It's small, chubby, has a blunt face ( I might even go as far as saying it's 'cute') and is full of spice, facing off against a massive Theropod. Most modern crocs seem characterless in comparison. Perhaps, in becoming the dominant animal type on land, and pushing all the others aside into extinction, us mammals have robbed ourselves of some very interesting co-existing creatures!

Something I noticed about simosuchus is that both depictions with and without lips are absolutely adorable in their own way. The lipless depictions give it adorable buck teeth that make them look very silly, and the lipped depictions make its face look very round and polite. I love this animal so much

I love how well you explain everything so that you make us not only care about a long extinct species, but that you link it to our modern world so that we care about the land and people who live where it did now.

Yay, finally a new video on my favourite crocodylomorph! Seriously, how could anyone not fall in love with the little pug crocs? 😍🐊

I don't know what they are but I want to pet thembs

It was just so nice to finally see at least one crocodylomorph representin'. I think it had a fair amount of screentime, and displayed some interesting behavioural conjecture. It's large eyes are thought provoking and I was surprised to see it burrowing into actual burrows, that kinda didn't add up to me. I can imagine it protecting itself more like the modern monotreme echidna. As always, more research is required.

I’ve gotta say thank you for your videos. I abandoned my passion for paleontology due to financial reasons, so I’m glad I can still learn and satisfy my passion for learning about these amazing animals. Thank you so much!

Prehistoric Planet is quite literally the only show that did Pterosaur species justice in all honesty.

I write on Madagascar a lot for a living (I keep a few international companies aware on issues in Africa), and initiatives like these are so important.

The most beautiful thing I have ever seen in my life

I just realized this channel only has 33k subscribers. This dude does such an awesome fucking job I am so surprised he doesn't have more.

Adorable. It is adorable.

Simosuchus looks like a anger Marshmallow

gigachad lizard

idea: it lived symbiotically with some other animal that did all the burrow digging, while it used its large eyes to scour the surroundings for predators. Then they lived in the burrow together

There are some land crocodiles today kind of the dwarf croc live mostly on land and have a subspecies in gabo that lives in caves and feeds mostly on bats.

What a bizzarre fella