#Mod Shuvosaurus

[mesozoicsuggestions]

So how about them pre human crocodiles? Were they too so very good at pretending to be logs?

!!!! I AM CERTAINLY NO LOG PRETENDER!

(art by Nobu Tomura - http://spinops.blogspot.co.uk/ )

Nor is my spiky aetosaur friend!

(Credit to Dr Jeff Martz, then Tomura again)

Postosuchus might look like a log, if logs looked angry! 

(my cousin postosuchus is actually lovely)

Do logs have sails on their backs? if so, I guess Arizonasaurus does sterling work pretending to be a log:

(Tomurrrrra art credit again, thank you for drawing all the psuedosuchians for wikipedia!)

Look! Another log! Oh wait, it’s Ctenosauriscus!

I don’t know what the logs are like from where you are from but if they look like Prestosuchus then sure, she’s a log as well

(art by Dmitry Bogdanov, who also does a lot of psuedosuchian art for wikipedia)

Ah yes another log:

(Thanks Dr Jeff Martz)

But okay, you are asking about crocodiles, not the rest of us psuedosuchians.

So… do the crocodiles pretend to be logs?

Yes.

Very

Very

Big Logs

(Art by Raul Martin)

-MOD SHUVO

[daily-felt]

orange paint brush with Biscuits?

he has entered...

🍊THE ORANGE ZONE🍊

[homestuck-lesbians-week]

chubby trans gal Porrim x tall a beanpole-y Aranea?

She’s not as chubby as I wanted but I hope this works!

- Mod Rhys

[mesozoicsuggestions]

Suggestion; if you want someone dinosaurs to change completely, maybe you need psuedosuchians someone else.

-Mod Suvo

[mesozoicsuggestions]

Suggestion, bring cheer to someone’s day by telling them a Psuedosuchian fact:

Let’s start off with psuedosuchian meaning fake (psuedo) crocodile (suchian), something with includes real crocodiles. Ergo, all crocodiles are fake.

Next, let’s get one things straight, WE ruled the Triassic. Tell your friends this.

A third fun fact; some psuedosuchians are what you might call ‘dinosaurs’ if you think dinosaurs look like big scaly things full of teeth and are a FOOL, and sometimes people dig fossils up and say “this looks like a dinosaur,” for they are FOOLS, and later have to reclassify the fossil when they realise the FOOLISH FOLLIES OF THEIR WAYS. If they were unsure they should have hopped in a time machine, travelled back to the Triassic and asked me politely rather than jumping to conclusions based on my BONE STRUCTURE.

This has been children’s fun fact science corner

-Mod Shuvo

[mesozoicsuggestions]

Suggestion: Smile at the crocodiles?

Mod Shuvo

[mesozoicsuggestions]

Suggestion: try to use some less outdated phrases when speaking:

“A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush”? No no, “A postosuchus in the hand is worth two in the bush.”

“Birds of a feather fly together”? Ha, my friends, the new phrase is “Aetosaurs of a plate are the best mates.”

“As free as a bird”? Try “as free as a Deinosuchus”, no one is going to cage up one of those any time soon.

“The early bird gets the worm”? The early Poposaurus gets the... gets the... the food. Yes.

Did a little bird tell you something? How about you heard it from a Shuvosaurus instead, eh?

Mod Shuvo

[mesozoicsuggestions]

Suggestion: sip some water

Mod Shuvo

[mesozoicsuggestions]

Suggestion: stop sitting in muddy river banks and go to as many nerdy conventions as physically possible. 

Wear a cunning disguise so no one knows you’re a prehistoric reptile.

Mod Shuvo

[mesozoicsuggestions]

Spooky suggestion: celebrate Samhain, the Celtic New Year, by writing down your worries and then setting fire to them; let go of something in the new year.

And remember, psuedosuchians rule, dinosaurs drool.

-Mod Shuvo

[mesozoicsuggestions]

tell of an awful happenings of your era? any bad memories? plants snatched from your beak? perhaps you were a plant and someone stepped on you?

Well, not back in my era, but I was once confused for a dinosaur. No joke, they classed me in Ornithomimidae. My ancestors started walking on hind legs, making me a gorgeous bipedal, beaked psuedosuchian, and what impression is left in the fossil record?

Humans decide I’m a DINOSAUR!!!

And speaking of another thing after my time; psuedosuchians once ruled the Earth and then, suddenly, when we’re all still recovering from The Horror of the Mass Extinction, the dinosaurs just take over everything? Who’s eating the plants? It’s a dinosaur! Who’s hunting that dinosaur? Another dinosaur! Where are the psuedosuchians? ARE THEY ON THE RIVER BANKS PRETENDING TO BE LOGS? THEY ARE. 

The Horror of the Mass Extinction is also pretty awful but thank goodness I have yet to witness that.

So, okay, back in my era, when I’m not reading the wikipedia of the future; I relate so much to plants being snatched from my very beak. I don’t know if I’m just being slow, or unobservant of others but it happens to me a lot.

-Mod Shuvo

[mesozoicsuggestions]

So sad you are being oppressed by all these dinosaur obsessed anons. I am truely not among these anons. No not me. Shifty Eyes

Good, because HERE’S THE THING: Psuedosuchians are better than dinosaurs.

Everyone goes ‘lets talk about the Terrible Lizards’ but have you even considered the ‘Fake Crocodiles’?

-Mod Shuvo

[mesozoicsuggestions]

well tbh Ctenosauriscus cold pass as a log in my corner of the world. you see the ocean here, the baltic sea, has aggresive Cyanobacteria bloomings during summer. well then everything looks slimy and green. and tbh everything cold be log. like thanks cyanobacteria for giving us air to breath etc etc. but chill with these shenigans in the baltic sea (this is a human pollution created problem. this is not normal for baltic sea)

Next time I hear my cousin complaining that she doesn’t look enough like a log I shall tell them where True Logginess can be achieved. 

I don’t know if the Baltic Sea might be a little chilly for us; I mean, because we are huge-bodied archosaurs we are a little better at controlling our temperatures than mere lizards, so maybe your sea is a log-mimic’s paradise. 

-Mod Shuvo

[mesozoicsuggestions]

crocodile boring and just sit in water pretending to be log. source. had a dwarf caiman as a pet once (my brothers choice not mine. i am innocent of this idea to have an actual dwarf caiman as a pet).

Be careful anon, that is my cousin you are talking about! Although I must admit, my river-cousins do spend a lot of their days sitting in the mud, when they could be munching plants like myself and the aetosaurs, scuttling around on long legs like the sphenosuchians, or ruling the land as awesome predators like the poposaurs. So they sit in the mud while the rest of us ‘fake crocodiles’ run over the land, but do you know what? My cousins worked hard for that ecological niche and I will fight, using my tiny arms and beak, to defend all psuedosuchians, no matter how much time they spend pretending to be a log!

They are the best log-pretenders! (don’t show me those geckos that try to be logs, they are MERE TWIGS) They have perfected ambushing! My cousin Sarcosuchus will eat those who call him boring!

-Mod Shuvosaurus

[mesozoicsuggestions]

Suggestion: stop procrastinating.

-Mod Shuvo