Crocodiles actually have an easier time surviving than other animals, because they're cold blooded. They don't need to constantly eat to survive, so the low food environment wasn't as bad for them. A young crocodile could probably watch the impact, and live long enough to see the skies clear up.
@@theannualantagonist5930 yes, because life functions better when it's warm, but the main reason you need to eat multiple times a day is to keep that heat stable. crocodilians and other reptiles don't have this need. they don't need to eat constantly because they don't need to have a stable internal temperature. they function better when it's warm, but cold won't kill them like it will you. so, a crocodile might have just slept through the year of darkness until the ash cloud cleared and then they could sunbathe again. by the way, this is part of the reason people think dinosaurs had the ability to thermoregulate, they were warm-blooded, because they starved and froze while the crocodilians didn't.
For a start there weren't any crocodiles then and if they were and survived the start then they would hardly be fine they still need food it's a extremely dangerous enviroment and they still need food so it would also be awful for cold blooded creatures also no crocodile ancestor at least born around the impact would have lived long enough to see the skies clear
@@AlysIThink101 it would actually be easier for cold-blooded animals to survive the dinosaur extinction. Note that warm-blooded animals were the ones most affected. Not a single warm blooded animal weighing in at more than 25 kg survived. All non-Avian dinosaurs went extinct, and among the avians, only modern birds survived. Mammals also underwent serious pruning. By contrast, most turtle and crocodilian species made it out alive, and it took years for paleontologists to find evidence that any amphibian species went extinct at all. In cold temperatures, ectothermic animals go into brumation and conserve energy. Thus, they require even less food than endothermic & mesothermic animals, whose metabolism is always expending energy. Ectothermic animals obviously can't stay in brumation their whole lives, that's why they can't survive in the Arctic. But under catastrophic circumstances, they can just barely scrape by, which is much more than I can say for warm blooded creatures.
@@trollerjakthetrollinggod-e7761 Sorry I replied to this already but my comment seems to have been removed what I meant to say is that it wouldn't be easier for cold blooded creatures not that it would be significantly harder also none of that stuff about more warm blooded creatures dying more than cold blooded creatures proves that it would be easier for cold blooded creatures it suggests that but that is a mostly unrelated fact while you are right that it wouldn't be significantly harder it would still be extremely hard also there are a significant amount of cold blooded creatures including crocodilians that went extinct
A video called "Alien scale" also by Kurzgesagt is worth watching. I also think you might like a channel called "LEMMiNO". He does documentary style videos on a lot of topics. Keep up the good work.
Dax, bruh. Continuity...from continuous...continue, so verb form or something. Eh it's fine lol. And bird are the direct descendants of dinos, hence goose game is them getting revenge.
Crocodiles actually have an easier time surviving than other animals, because they're cold blooded. They don't need to constantly eat to survive, so the low food environment wasn't as bad for them. A young crocodile could probably watch the impact, and live long enough to see the skies clear up.
Don’t large reptiles also want to sunbathe like lizards to give them enough energy to actually hunt though?
@@theannualantagonist5930 yes, because life functions better when it's warm, but the main reason you need to eat multiple times a day is to keep that heat stable.
crocodilians and other reptiles don't have this need. they don't need to eat constantly because they don't need to have a stable internal temperature. they function better when it's warm, but cold won't kill them like it will you. so, a crocodile might have just slept through the year of darkness until the ash cloud cleared and then they could sunbathe again.
by the way, this is part of the reason people think dinosaurs had the ability to thermoregulate, they were warm-blooded, because they starved and froze while the crocodilians didn't.
For a start there weren't any crocodiles then and if they were and survived the start then they would hardly be fine they still need food it's a extremely dangerous enviroment and they still need food so it would also be awful for cold blooded creatures also no crocodile ancestor at least born around the impact would have lived long enough to see the skies clear
@@AlysIThink101 it would actually be easier for cold-blooded animals to survive the dinosaur extinction. Note that warm-blooded animals were the ones most affected.
Not a single warm blooded animal weighing in at more than 25 kg survived. All non-Avian dinosaurs went extinct, and among the avians, only modern birds survived. Mammals also underwent serious pruning. By contrast, most turtle and crocodilian species made it out alive, and it took years for paleontologists to find evidence that any amphibian species went extinct at all.
In cold temperatures, ectothermic animals go into brumation and conserve energy. Thus, they require even less food than endothermic & mesothermic animals, whose metabolism is always expending energy.
Ectothermic animals obviously can't stay in brumation their whole lives, that's why they can't survive in the Arctic. But under catastrophic circumstances, they can just barely scrape by, which is much more than I can say for warm blooded creatures.
@@trollerjakthetrollinggod-e7761 Sorry I replied to this already but my comment seems to have been removed what I meant to say is that it wouldn't be easier for cold blooded creatures not that it would be significantly harder also none of that stuff about more warm blooded creatures dying more than cold blooded creatures proves that it would be easier for cold blooded creatures it suggests that but that is a mostly unrelated fact while you are right that it wouldn't be significantly harder it would still be extremely hard also there are a significant amount of cold blooded creatures including crocodilians that went extinct
4:08 Same reason that you get a Wirthington jet when you drop something into water.
A video called "Alien scale" also by Kurzgesagt is worth watching. I also think you might like a channel called "LEMMiNO". He does documentary style videos on a lot of topics. Keep up the good work.
He's already watched LEMMiN
@@snnnaaaaaakeeeee4470 There a couple of videos from LEMMiNO that he hasn't watched.
Dax, bruh. Continuity...from continuous...continue, so verb form or something. Eh it's fine lol.
And bird are the direct descendants of dinos, hence goose game is them getting revenge.
Fun Fact: the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was more then 100 times more powerful then the most power nuke ever denoted which is the Tsar Bomb
Way, way more powerful than that.
We have been here for such a small amount of time and already were fucking the hole planet up.
The Permian-Triassic mass extinction happened before this and it was a lot worse.
Finally! This was the video I wanted you to watch!
that sounds depressing.............. lets go
This video was great I liked it man 🙂
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While obviously there were survivors there would be no life or at least complex life anymore if there weren't.
Crocodiles have been around for a very, very long time.
@@MySerpentine Yeah you are right I don't know why I said that.
If you want to learn a more in depth version of the last day of the dinosaurs, the documentary movie: "Last Day of the Dinosaurs" is a good one.