Are crocodiles descended from dinosaurs? What is the ancestor of the crocodile?

Crocodiles are not descendants of dinosaurs (crocodiles appeared in the Mesozoic era from the Triassic to the Cretaceous, and were contemporaneous animals with dinosaurs, and the similarity may only be due to the influence of the bad environment of the times, so they are not considered descendants of dinosaurs in terms of origin), such as horned crocodiles are herbivorous creatures that lived in the late Triassic, and ground crocodiles are carnivorous creatures that lived in the middle of the Jurassic, all of which lived in the same era as dinosaurs.

No, crocodiles are products of the same era as dinosaurs. It's just that the dinosaurs are extinct, and the crocodiles are gone.

No! Crocodile: He and dinosaurs are creatures that lived in the same era, so crocodiles cannot be descendants of dinosaurs.

Yes, it belongs to the offspring of the alligator-billed dragon, which evolved to live in water because of changes in the earth's environment.

I originally thought that crocodiles were descendants of dinosaurs, and it turned out that crocodiles were not descendants of dinosaurs.