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For example, the behaviour of crocodiles "is constructed in interaction, both between people and crocodiles, and among people"; [5] markedly different results depended on "institutional arrangements and attitudes towards sharing a dam with crocodiles" in different villages in Benin, where knowledge of crocodile habits reduced attacks. [5] [6]
Three extant crocodilian species clockwise from top-left: saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus), American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis), and gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) Crocodilia is an order of mostly large, predatory, semiaquatic reptiles, which includes true crocodiles, the alligators, and caimans; as well as the gharial and ...
Crocodilians live almost exclusively in lowland habitiat, and do not appear to live above 1,000 metres (3,300 ft). [115] With a range extending from eastern India to New Guinea and northern Australia, the saltwater crocodile is the widest-spread species. [118] Crocodilians use various types of aquatic habitats.
The animals that once roamed the earth were far larger and more sizable than we can wrap our heads around. Such is the case of the Barinasuchus, an ancient crocodilian that was far larger than ...
Crocodiles (family Crocodylidae) or true crocodiles are large, semiaquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia.The term “crocodile” is sometimes used more loosely to include all extant members of the order Crocodilia, which includes the alligators and caimans (both members of the family Alligatoridae), the gharial and false gharial (both ...
She has the head of crocodile, the mane of a lion, and the body of a dog. From a Book of the Dead papyrus (c. 2nd century BCE) in Thebes. Prior to the New Kingdom and the creation of Chapter 125 in the Book of the Dead, Ammit did not have a large presence in ancient Egyptian religion.
The researchers identified a series of 9-inch-long prints as belonging to an ancient crocodylomorph, a group that includes living crocodilians (alligators, crocodiles, and other similarly-sized ...
Crocodylomorpha is a group of pseudosuchian archosaurs that includes the crocodilians and their extinct relatives. They were the only members of Pseudosuchia to survive the end-Triassic extinction . Extinct crocodylomorphs were considerably more ecologically diverse than modern crocodillians.