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Tree frogs () Species Common name(s) Notes Image Osteopilus septentrionalis [1]: Cuban tree frog: Least concern. [2] Introduced; recently recorded as established on Antigua.
An alligator, or colloquially gator, is a large reptile in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae in the order Crocodilia. The two extant species are the American alligator (A. mississippiensis) and the Chinese alligator (A. sinensis). Additionally, several extinct species of alligator are known from fossil remains.
This alligator and the American alligator are now considered to be sister taxa, suggesting that the A. mississippiensis lineage has existed in North America for seven to eight million years. [ 1 ] The alligator's full mitochondrial genome was sequenced in the 1990s, and it suggests the animal evolved at a rate similar to mammals and greater ...
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Zoobooks is a monthly subscription magazine for children. Each issue of Zoobooks covers a different animal or group of animals with pictures, educational diagrams, facts, and games. Zoobooks also has available online content to further explore the text.
Seeing an alligator while out and about can be both a startling and mesmerizing sight. Here are five things everyone should remember at all times, and especially during the next several months.
The alligators can stay frozen in place for days at a time, the park found. Temperatures fell to 17 degrees in Ocean Isle Beach on the day the video was recorded, the park reported.
The lineage including alligators proper (Alligatorinae) occurs in the fluvial deposits of the age of the Upper Chalk in Europe, where they did not die out until the Pliocene age. The true alligators are today represented by two species, A. mississippiensis in the southeastern United States , which can grow to 15.6 ft (4.6 m) and weigh 1000 lbs ...