>>11543285
>(why the fuck a giant predator would look colorful when he heeds to hide or just be less noticable by anything)
I dunno man why is a tiger bright fuckin orange. Lotta prey animals are color blind. And bright colors are often for other animals of the same species.

And crocs/gators are almost uniquely bland out of almost any reptile you coulda picked bro. Tons of geckos and lizards have bright colors. There's turtles with brightly colored strips, it's why they're called fuckin painted turtles. Same for box turtles, they've got bright stripes on their shells. And let's assume for a minute the prey animal has perfect human-level color vision, which is laughable. Those colors could blend in well with prehistoric foliage, which was a lot bigger back then. Being dark is only camouflage if you're a flat bastard like a croc. Anything as big as a t-rex does itself no favors being darkly colored in a jungle.