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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.
Alligatorinae is cladistically defined as Alligator mississippiensis (the American alligator) and all species closer to it than to Caiman crocodylus (the spectacled caiman). [ 8 ] [ 9 ] This is a stem-based definition for Alligatorinae, and means that it includes more basal extinct alligator ancestors that are more closely related to living ...
An average adult American alligator's weight and length is 360 kg (790 lb) and 4 m (13 ft), but they sometimes grow to 4.4 m (14 ft) long and weigh over 450 kg (990 lb). [11] The largest ever recorded, found in Louisiana, measured 5.84 m (19.2 ft). [12] The Chinese alligator is smaller, rarely exceeding 2.1 m (7 ft) in length.
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 basically go wherever they want. But a Georgia family is mystified as to how one got into their home’s fenced-in backyard.. The frightening discovery was made Friday, March 15, at a ...
In fact, the American alligator is found farther from the equator and is more equipped to handle cooler conditions than any other crocodilian. [86] When the water begins to freeze, American alligators go into a period of brumation ; they stick their snouts through the surface, which allows them to breathe above the ice, [ 81 ] and they can ...
A fisherman caught a 4-foot alligator in Norris Lake in East Tennessee. Here's where Norris Lake is and why the alligator find is uncommon.
The Chinese alligator split from the American alligator about 33 million years ago [2] and likely descended from a lineage that crossed the Bering land bridge during the Neogene. The modern American alligator is well represented in the fossil record of the Pleistocene. [4] The alligator's full mitochondrial genome was sequenced in the 1990s. [5]