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Titanollante wrote: The Alatreon wrote: They said lets make a realistic creature

yea a giant lizard with spikes that can burrow and breathe underwater is real I think you're referring to Zilla, because Godzilla doesn't really burrow underground.

Anyways, giant lizards are extremely possible (Anyone remember the dinosaurs?) and spiked lizards are also very possible (Anyone remember the Ankylosaurus? The Stegosaurus?) and lizards that are both giant and can breathe underwater are also possible (Crocodiles? Mosasaurs? Plesiosaurs?).

The only unrealistic thing about Godzilla is the atomic breath, so Gareth has stated that they'll downplay the atomic breath, make Godzilla rarely use it. Except that your science is way off there bro.

Plesiosaurs may be related to lizards but that is debatable. Mosasaurs however are lizards. Crocodiles are not lizards, in fact they are closer to birds in relation to lizards. None of the three could breathe under water at all. They could hold their breath under water but they still had to come up for air.

Dinosaurs are not lizards either. In fact they are closer to birds than even crocodiles are since birds are considered to be dinosaurs. Pterosaurs are also closely related to dinosaurs and birds. Again, Ankylosaurus and Stegosaurus are not lizards. Godzilla is a mutated theropod looking archosaur of some sort. I say archosaur because there were archosaurs that were not crocs or dinosaurs (since both crocs and dinosaurs are archosaurs and by extension birds are also dinosaurs) since there were archosaurs that looked like dinosaurs but were not dinosaurs and possibly were not crocodiles either in the early Triassic at the latest.

There is at least one (Smok, which means dragon in Polish by the way) that is debated to have been related to crocodiles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smok_(archosaur)