Kaprosuchus

*Kaprosuchus* are notosuchians from the Late Cretaceous of Africa.

## Charicteristics

*Kaprosuchus* are lithe, long-legged crocodilians, covered in green and blue scales with a yellow underbelly. On their heads are a pair of bony crests, which lead into rows of osteoderms on their armored back, which can easily shrug off most physical attacks and the majority of bullets. The long legs allow for it to be a capable terrestrial hunter, although they are still effective aquatic hunters. The tusks of the *Kaprosuchus* are its main weapons, being used in both territorial combat and to pin and crush prey.

   While *Kaprosuchus* are territorial towards other species, juveniles, young adult males and females live in congregated groups along river systems, but this tends to lead to a strain on food supplies between the parties. Older males, known as bulls, live on their own for most of their lives, normally within the floodplains. Females will leave the main waterways for the tributaries in order to find isolated areas to lay their eggs. In Vulture Valley this tends to be higher up the valley's walls, and the mothers will stay and guard them until they leave the nest in a month's time. The young *Kaprosuchus* will eventually return to the main waterways after intense competition for food within the tributaries. The ravenous hunger of the returning juveniles will work every nearby member of the species into a feeding frenzy, causing the animals to abandon self-preservation in order to feed, either on whatever is near the water or smaller *Kaprosuchus* that get caught up in the adults' attacks. This creates a natural population control for the species and keeps their numbers in check.

## History

### *Utahraptor* Discovery

*Kaprosuchus* were among the animals brought to Vulture Valley in Vietnam by the failure of the first USSR particle collider. At least three months after their introduction, one bull would find an abandoned Andrei Wynn hiding in some mangrove roots. The bull would try to attack him, eventually digging through the roots and out the other side, stumbling into a *Utahraptor* that had been hunting nearby. The two predators fought viciously, but the dromaeosaur ended up disembowling the bull, although the carcass' jaws would remain stuck around the raptor's head and the body crushing it. The rest of the raptor's hunting party would remove the carcass from their packmate, but they the *Kaprosuchus'* teeth would remain permanently embedded in the animal's skull, leading to it being given the name Sobek.

### Destruction of the Collider

The following year as Vulture Squad, General Amadeus Jericho's Black Ops, and Andrei were traveling upriver via boat, a feeding frenzy of *Kaprosuchus* attacked them and a nearby herd of dinosaurs, killing a *Triceratops* and beginning to swarm the boat as it had gotten stuck in high mud. Logan Stovall jumped out of the boat and ran into the forest in order to buy the men on the boat some time to push it out. The crocodilians would eventually catch and eat Logan alive, one getting his confederate bandana stuck in its jaws, and would return to the river as the boat drove off.

## Trivia

In reality, adult Kaprosuchus were smaller, only about 10-11 feet long and weighting about 400-500 lbs.