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Cipactli (Classical Nahuatl: Cipactli "crocodile" or "caiman") was the first day of the Aztec divinatory count of 13 X 20 days (the tonalpohualli) and Cipactonal "Sign of Cipactli" was considered to have been the first diviner. [1] In Aztec cosmology, the crocodile symbolized the earth floating in the primeval waters.
Crocodilia (/ k r ɒ k ə ˈ d ɪ l i ə /) is an order of semiaquatic, predatory reptiles that are known as crocodilians.They first appeared during the Late Cretaceous and are the closest living relatives of birds.
Sebecids were terrestrial crocodiles, meaning they lived and hunted on land. Essentially, Barinasuchus was a land-dwelling predator that was the height of a man, weighed over 3,000 lbs, and was 25 ...
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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 ...
Ancient Egypt had Sobek, the crocodile-headed god, with his cult-city Crocodilopolis, as well as Taweret, the goddess of childbirth and fertility, with the back and tail of a crocodile. [7] In Hinduism , Varuna , a Vedic and Hindu god, rides a makara , a water-beast like a crocodile, [ 14 ] [ 15 ] and he is called Nāgarāja, lord of snakes. [ 15 ]
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 ...
Cladistically, it is defined as Crocodylus niloticus (the Nile crocodile) and all crocodylians more closely related to C. niloticus than to either Alligator mississippiensis (the American alligator) or Gavialis gangeticus (the gharial). [5] This is a stem-based definition for crocodiles, and is more inclusive than the crown group Crocodylidae. [3]