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An all-white baby gator made history as “the rarest alligator in the world” when she squirmed out of her shell at a Florida wildlife park in 2023. ... Mystic is the first-recorded leucistic ...
Not all higher social behaviours are endemic across these clades; a 2023 study of a tinamou bird and American alligator test subjects found alligators do not appear to engage in visual perspective-taking like the birds. [149] Some researchers have proposed an increase in the use of crocodilians as test animals in comparative cognition studies ...
Alligator eggs typically hatch “from mid-August through early September,” suggesting the five alligators were 2 to 3 months old. Alligators can reach more than 14 feet in length and 1,000 ...
Alligators grow a successional tooth (a small replacement tooth) under each mature functional tooth for replacement once a year, each tooth being replaced up to 50 times in the alligator's life. [7] Crocodilia are researched for tooth regeneration in humans.
Fossils identical to the existing American alligator are found throughout the Pleistocene, from 2.5 million to 11.7 thousand years ago. [17] In 2016, a Late Miocene fossil skull of an alligator, dating to approximately seven or eight million years ago, was discovered in Marion County, Florida. Unlike the other extinct alligator species of the ...
An American alligator found in a cold New York creek in November 2024. Mark Perpetua, his new owner, said on Nov. 19, 2024 that he may be 4 to 6 years old, but he could be older.
Smaller alligators can often be found in large numbers close to each other. The largest of the species (both males and females) defend prime territory; smaller alligators have a higher tolerance for other alligators within a similar size class. Alligators move on land by two forms of locomotion, referred to as "sprawl" and "high walk".
Alligators can regrow their tails, it turns out. Researchers have discovered that these ancient reptiles that date back to dinosaur days and can grow 14 feet long or more can regenerate themselves ...