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A Fort Worth Zoo ectotherm zoo keeper holds one of four recently hatched gharial crocodiles on Thursday, August 31, 2023, in Fort Worth. Gharial crocodiles are a critically endangered species with ...
A Canadian man was arrested at an Indian airport for carrying a crocodile skull in his luggage.. Customs officials stopped the 32-year-old man during a security check at Terminal 3 of Delhi’s ...
Customs officials stopped the 32-year-old man during a security check at Terminal 3 of Delhi’s international airport on Monday and found "a skull with sharp teeth, resembling the jaw of a baby ...
The gharial (Gavialis gangeticus), also known as gavial or fish-eating crocodile, is a crocodilian in the family Gavialidae and among the longest of all living crocodilians. . Mature females are 2.6 to 4.5 m (8 ft 6 in to 14 ft 9 in) long, and males 3 to 6 m (9 ft 10 in to 19 ft 8
Nile crocodile ambushing migrating wildebeest crossing the Mara River. Crocodilians are largely carnivorous. The diets of species varies with snout shape and tooth sharpness. Species with sharp teeth and long, slender snouts, like the Indian gharial and Australian freshwater crocodile, are specialized for snapping fish, insects, and crustaceans.
Scale diagram showing the size of E. brumpti (orange). Euthecodon was a large-bodied crocodilian with an elongated snout similar to that of extant gavialoids.Euthecodon differs from any other known longirostrine crocodilian in its deeply scalloped rostral margins, each tooth sitting in its own bony sheath, separated from the next by a notable constriction of the rostrum, given the skull a saw ...
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Prionosuchus has been classified as an archegosaurid by Carroll. [6] The genus is monotypic with P. plummeri being the only species described. The archegosaurs were a group of temnospondyls that occupied the ecological niche of crocodiles and alligators during the Permian, and of which the European genus Archegosaurus is typical.