Melanosuchus

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The skull is also a slightly lighter color than the main body, usually a grey-dark silver coloration and they have black facial spots that typically fade in only the larger animals. They posses a “scarf” between the head & neck that is either similar to the head in color or a creamy-sand like color.

Super late & I love it but it was almost perfect in my eyes besides one thing, the coloration & patterns! You gave it the patterning of the much different Spectacled Caiman, Melanosuchus are predominantly black in color of course, sometimes dark navy blue. No green but do have a white underbelly!

Noooooo, the art is great but you drew the widespread “fake image” of Black Caiman! Thats just a deformed, captive dark colored spectacled Caiman. This is how the true Black Caiman, the largest of Alligatoridae & the largest crocodilian of the neotropical realm looks like:

Pay attention to the spinal ridge by the way, Melanosuchus especially large adults have elevated area running down their spine, it’s mainly used for display and makes them look almost like a spinosaurus from the distance. The largest individuals can have extremely massive ones.

Yup, all of them are the mighty Melanosuchus niger itself, the largest super predator of the Americas and the true third largest crocodilian.

Oh this is nothing, I’m obsessed with them and genuinely have 13,500 photos solely of Black Caiman 🤣

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Jealous! Hoping to go to St. Augustine sometime this summer.

UF53600, one of the largest Black Caiman skulls alongside the skull of a 16 ft Nile Crocodile in the Gainesville Museum of Florida.

You and ask you shall receive.. More is on the way. Take note to the great depth of their skull, the most impressive skulls of the extant crocs.

Of course! Caimans are my biggest passion, if you ever need references especially of the Giant Black Caiman, you know who to ask!

Looks based off P. palpebrosus specifically

I’m too shy to do that..

Yess, caimans!

I just love and love and looove how much caiman you put into him

You can see the poor guy has MBD and Saw Jaw as well, not proper care at all..

Insanely accurate black caiman 🔥

One of the mightiest crocodilians for its size, the Cuvier’s Dwarf Caiman (Paleosuchus palpebrosus). Highly territorial and quite terrestrial, they and the closely related P. Trigonatus are some of the oldest of the many extant crocodilian species. #Caiman

You will 💪

With jaguars tail sticking out mouth? 😂 love it!

Jealous jealous jealous, please let me know if you see Black Caiman!

Not enough art of prehistoric crocs eating things 😂

I don’t work with them since I live in the US, but I do treat them as my own when I visit, the juveniles they often state are mine anyways since they are all (besides one mean one) are quite comfortable around me. A couple crocs are the same age as me too.

Yes, very distant relatives of mine who live in Kenya (80% of my ridiculously extensive family lives there still) own about 150 crocodiles, their place is called Mamba Village Nairobi, ironically, I only knew they were related to me when I visited for the first time back when I recorded this 😂

A gentle display of dominance between two female Nile #Crocodile ‘s (Crocodylus niloticus), these animals are owned by my relatives in Nairobi, Kenya, be sure to check them out if you visit!