Based on the aesthetic standards that humans have established over the years, the appearance of ancient animals is far inferior to that of today’s animals. Most of them can only be described with the word “weird”. But not every ancient animal is ugly. For example, there was an animal called "Crocodile" 250 million years ago, which looked quite domineering and powerful. Even if you just look at the head, the crowned crocodile bears some resemblance to the legendary dragon.

According to biological classification, Crownsuchus also belongs to the order Therapsida. We have popularized animals of the order Therapsids many times before, such as Kensitherium, Muskopia, etc.

However, Crowned Crocodile is a relatively special therapsid animal, so they are included in the suborder Dioscephalus under Therapsida, and then the following Crowned Crocodile, Crowned Crocodile The genus genus. Of course, based on current human archaeological discoveries, there are only two members of the Crocodile family, one is the Ulacrocodile, and the other is the Crested Crocodile.

Generally speaking, therapsids were almost the largest animals on land during the Permian era. It’s just that the musk-footed animals and kenistotherium that we have popularized before are herbivores, while the crowned crocodile is an omnivore. They will eat the roots, stems and leaves of various plants like common therapsids. At the same time, if they encounter the opportunity to hunt, crocodiles will also take down prey. Although their teeth are not as good as those of pure carnivores, they still have a certain biting ability.

Of course, although the crowned crocodile has the ability to hunt, most of the time they still have to be vegetarian. Because this animal is very bulky like other therapsids, whether it is absolute running speed or turning and stopping during travel, the crowned crocodile is very poor. And their bulky size like adult bison makes them even more powerless when hunting.

In terms of appearance, Crocodile is a bit more domineering than other therapsids. Overall, they looked a bit like long-legged crocodiles, and they also had horns on their heads like today's deer, but they were relatively thicker and looked a bit like a crown. So when people first discovered the fossil of this animal, they called it "the crocodile wearing a crown."

Although it is a crocodile wearing a crown, if analyzed from the perspective of body structure, crowned crocodiles are not really a successfully evolved animal, and they are not even comparable to reptiles like crocodiles. So far, crocodiles have existed for more than 200 million years, while crocodiles only lived a few million years before going extinct.

And unlike reptiles such as crocodiles, which are widely distributed around the world, Crocodylus was only distributed in some areas of southwestern Russia even in the middle of the Permian when it was most prosperous. All the crowned crocodile fossils discovered today were also found in these places.

The only animals in the world that value appearance are probably humans. For animals, beauty or ugliness is not really an advantage or disadvantage. Although Crown Crocodile is known as "the crocodile wearing a crown" ", but its environmental adaptability and vitality are far inferior to those of crocodiles.