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Vulnerable: American crocodile, mugger crocodile, and dwarf crocodile. The main threat to crocodilians worldwide is human activity, including hunting and habitat destruction. Early in the 1970s, more than 2 million wild crocodilian skins had been traded, depleting the majority of crocodilian populations, in some cases almost to extinction.
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 ...
Upload file; Special pages; Permanent link; ... Articles about taxa in the order Crocodilia—the crocodiles, alligators, ... Crocodilians by location (6 C ...
Such is the case of the Barinasuchus, an ancient crocodilian that was far larger than even a saltwater crocodile. So, let’s take a closer look at this ancient crocodilian and how it stacks up to ...
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 ...
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] Similarly the goddess personifications of the Ganga and Yamuna rivers are often depicted as riding crocodiles. [16] [17] [18] In Goa, crocodile worship is practised, as at the annual Mannge ...
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Crocodilians are a type of crocodylomorph pseudosuchian, a subset of archosaurs that appeared about 235 million years ago and were the only survivors of the Triassic–Jurassic extinction event. The order includes the true crocodiles (family Crocodylidae), the alligators and caimans (family Alligatoridae ), and the gharial and false gharial ...