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<blockquote data-quote="Geek" data-source="post: 2587079" data-attributes="member: 246624"><a href="http://www.researchblogging.org" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.researchblogging.org/public/citation_icons/rb2_mid.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a>I have never actually seen a snake eat a crocodile or a crocodile eat a snake, but I am pretty sure I&#039;ve seen <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/12/the_crater_and_the_crocodile.php" target="_blank">a snake planning to eat a Nile Croc</a>.&nbsp; And that was in the geological present.&nbsp; &nbsp; In the geological past, about 60 million years ago (during the &quot;Eocene&quot; a.k.a. &quot;dawn age&quot;) there was a rain forest that is sort of the ancestor to modern rain forests, which is now a coal deposit (and thus, eventually, will be part of our air) in Columbia. It has yielded interesting materials, and the latest report, just published, is of a fossil dyrosaurid crocodyliform (ancient croc ancestor).&nbsp; It is African.&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/very_cool_ancient_crocodile.php" target="_blank">Read the rest of this post...</a> | <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/very_cool_ancient_crocodile.php#commentsArea" target="_blank">Read the comments on this post...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~4/D5XIvznuOlk" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Geek, post: 2587079, member: 246624"] [URL="http://www.researchblogging.org"][IMG]http://www.researchblogging.org/public/citation_icons/rb2_mid.png[/IMG][/URL]I have never actually [I]seen[/I] a snake eat a crocodile or a crocodile eat a snake, but I am pretty sure I've seen [URL="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/12/the_crater_and_the_crocodile.php"]a snake planning to eat a Nile Croc[/URL]. And that was in the geological present. In the geological past, about 60 million years ago (during the "Eocene" a.k.a. "dawn age") there was a rain forest that is sort of the ancestor to modern rain forests, which is now a coal deposit (and thus, eventually, will be part of our air) in Columbia. It has yielded interesting materials, and the latest report, just published, is of a fossil dyrosaurid crocodyliform (ancient croc ancestor). It is African. [URL="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/very_cool_ancient_crocodile.php"]Read the rest of this post...[/URL] | [URL="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/very_cool_ancient_crocodile.php#commentsArea"]Read the comments on this post...[/URL][IMG]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~4/D5XIvznuOlk[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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