(snip)
>However, this does not settle the issue of the ancestral archosaurian
>condition. The earliest classical archosaurs, the so-called
>"proterosuchians", may also have been aquatic predators, in which case the
>switch-hitting heart may have evolved then. The fully four-chambered heart
>of birds (and presumably dinosaurs) would then have evolved from the
>crocodilian style heart when their ancestors abandoned aquatic hunting.
>
And I thought that the modern crocs ancestors were all terrestrial, "high
walkers", which would lead me to believe that (if anything), the gap between
the crocs ventricles and it`s cold-bloodedness were a secondary development
from a primary four chambered condition. Forgot where I read that (about the
terrestrial nature of early croc ancestors), ...someone please tell me if
I`m wrong here.