Why don’t we have deep sea crocodiles?
Fear of the oceans, or thalassophobia, is an understandable emotional reaction. The environment is dark, inhospitable to humans, and contains some of the planet’s biggest and weirdest creatures. But you can take some small comfort in the knowledge that, at the very least, evolution saved us from deep sea crocodiles. Crocodilian ancestors known as thallatosuchians…