crocodiles

How Do These Crocodiles Communicate With Each Other Before They Hatch?

Different crocodiles have different calls to signal everything from distress to dinnertime. But for sheer vocalization lifespan, it’s hard to beat the New Guinea Crocodile, whose lifelong habit of chattering begins while they’re still in the egg. https://observationdeck.kinja.com/smonday-crocodilian-crocodylus-novaguineae-edition-1637908129

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This Crocodile Uses Tools To Capture Its Prey

With their powerful jaws and their ability to grow up to 10 feet long, this South Asian crocodile looks like a powerful hunter. But its not just their size or their teeth that makes their hunting style so successful. It’s their strategy. They’re using tools. https://observationdeck.kinja.com/even-here-in-the-desert-i-feel-like-the-season-is-star-1634605369

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Is A Rise In Crocodile Hybrids Endangering The Cuban Crocodile?

The Cuban Crocodile is a critically endangered species. What’s threatening it? A history of hunting, habitat destruction, and, increasingly, the rise of a new group of crocodile hybrids, resulting from interbreeding with another crocodile species. The full story is after the jump.

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What Do You Find Out When You Put An Alligator On A Treadmill?

When you come across a paper on “alligator kinematics,” it’s time to pay attention. Somewhere, at some time, a scientist wanted to find out deep secrets of evolution and decided the best way to do it was putting an alligator on a treadmill. Crocodilians have two ways of getting around on land. There’s a sprawling…

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Watch a Robo-Crocodile Sneak Around Hippos to Study Their Poop

Like most creatures, hippos do not fancy being followed around by humans as they poop. But a robot boat carefully disguised as a crocodile? Why not. The Mara River in Kenya, home to 4,000 hippos, is also home to a lot of hippo poop. Scientists have worried that the brown slosh is flowing down river,…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

Incredibly tense images show impala escaping a crocodile attack

If you’ve ever wondered why impala can leap nine feet into the air, these amazing images captured by amateur photographer Rob Brookes will explain it in the clearest — and most dramatic — way possible. These photos of a failed crocodile attack were taken while Brookes was visiting Luangwa National Park in Zambia. According to…

io9 George Dvorsky

How crocodile extinction led to dinosaur domination

A mass extinction that occurred over 200 million years ago killed off a slew of huge predators, including hefty beasts that looked like crocodiles and enormous armadillos, according to new research. Some of the prehistoric predators — animals known collectively as the early pseudosuchians — likely preyed on certain dinosaurs, which later evolved some of…

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This handsome sea creature is where crocodiles came from

Introducing Tyrannoneustes lythrodectikos, a marine super-predator that lived over 163 million years ago. It looks like a cross between a dolphin and a crocodile — and for good reason. Scientists say it’s a transitional species that separated marine crocodiles from their larger, more fearsome relatives. The fossil was discovered way back in the early 1900s,…

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Roman crocodile armor is the closest thing reality has to Dungeons & Dragons gear

In the past, we’ve examined some hilarious forms of body armor for both human and hound.But in terms of sheer flamboyance, it’s hard to beat this suit of Roman crocodile armor from the third century, AD. https://gizmodo.com/this-1880s-anti-masturbation-armor-the-ultimate-codpi-5933371 https://gizmodo.com/10-retro-body-armors-that-will-transform-you-into-an-ol-5917559 https://gizmodo.com/this-siberian-bear-hunting-suit-from-the-1800s-turns-yo-5927038 https://gizmodo.com/and-now-historical-samurai-armor-built-for-a-dog-5940286 It’s unclear if this suit bestows any sort of defense bonus against ochre jelly, so…

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Three-Story Tall Crocodiles Once Swallowed Human Beings

I have an irrational fear, wait scratch that, I have a completely rational fear of alligators and crocodiles. They’re scaly dinosaurs that chomp with the power of two thousand warlords and were put on this Earth to kill us. And they were even worse two to four million years ago because they were three stories…

Biology Casey Chan

Ancient crocodiles could bite even harder than a T. Rex

What’s that, T. rex? You say you have the strongest bite ever? Well, the ancestors of the crocodile might have something to say about that — and some modern ones, too. https://gizmodo.com/t-rexs-bite-was-the-most-powerful-the-world-has-ever-k-5889198 The research team not only measured the bite force of all living Crocodilians (read: crocodiles, alligators, caimans, and gharials), but using what they…

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Africa’s oldest crocodile was over 30 feet long and wore thick head armor

Scientists at the University of Missouri have made an incredible prehistoric discovery. A sizable skull fragment, recently uncovered after spending several years hidden away in storage, actually belonged to a gigantic species of ancient crocodile. This finding is unlike anything the researchers have ever seen. The specimen — a hefty hunk of fossilized skull, first…

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Picture of the Day: September 5, 2011

MEGACROC LIVES | This one-ton, 21-foot saltwater crocodile was captured live in the Bunawan township of the Philippines. It took 100 people to haul the crocodile from the water — the animal will be moved to an ecotourism park in the Agusan province. Photo: Yahoo/AP.

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Escaped Crocodile Blamed For Deadly Plane Crash

A routine flight in the Democratic Republic of Congo turned deadly when a crocodile escaped from a passenger’s duffle bag. According to the flight’s sole human survivor, panicking passengers fled into the cockpit and caused the pilot to lose control. The first reports of the crash speculated that the plane had run out of fuel…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Life size replica of the Sharkodile: Half shark, half crocodile!

What if a shark and a crocodile had babies? We suppose their spawn might look a little something like this art on display at the National Art Gallery in Roppongi. Next stop: Sharkodile, an original Syfy movie! [Tokyobling via Superpunch]

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Dinosaur-Chomping Supercrocs Ruled the Sahara

Dinosaurs may not have been the most fearsome creatures to stalk the Saharan plains. Paleontologists have discovered fossils of several crocodile species that indicate some crocs galloped upright on land, some were enormous, and some literally ate dinosaurs for breakfast. National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Paul Sereno announced the discovery of fossils of five crocodile species in…

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Cyborg Crocodile Would Make Captain Hook Pee His Pirate Panties

Holy ashfjksahfkdfhja. This is Robo-Croc. He’s built with a pair of metal rods that run down his face, and over forty screws are bolted to his head holding his jaw and skull together. Surgeons were forced to construct the biotechnological terror now known as Robo-Croc after a car crushed his formerly ordinary-but-endangered crocodile head last…

Biology Matt Buchanan

Florida Is Scrambling Crocodiles’ Brains With Magnets

Strapping a magnet to a crocodile’s head seems like two counts of animal cruelty for the price of one, just to appease old people in Florida who are racist against crocodiles in their backyards. Florida state wildlife officials are taping magnets to poor crocodiles’ heads when they catch them in people’s yards or wherever they’re…

Biology Matt Buchanan

Australian Cage of Death Taunts Crocodiles With Human Food

The Australians, not content to dive in the ocean deep with a mere shark cage, have taken to hopping in the water with 19.6ft long salt water crocodiles using nothing but 4cm of acrylic plastic to keep them safe. As the croc gnashes its teeth against the cage, you piss your pants, the wife takes…

Tech News Jack Loftus

How Do These Crocodiles Communicate With Each Other Before They Hatch?

This Crocodile Uses Tools To Capture Its Prey

Is A Rise In Crocodile Hybrids Endangering The Cuban Crocodile?

What Do You Find Out When You Put An Alligator On A Treadmill?

Watch a Robo-Crocodile Sneak Around Hippos to Study Their Poop

Incredibly tense images show impala escaping a crocodile attack

How crocodile extinction led to dinosaur domination

This handsome sea creature is where crocodiles came from

Roman crocodile armor is the closest thing reality has to Dungeons & Dragons gear

Three-Story Tall Crocodiles Once Swallowed Human Beings

Ancient crocodiles could bite even harder than a T. Rex

Africa’s oldest crocodile was over 30 feet long and wore thick head armor

Picture of the Day: September 5, 2011

Escaped Crocodile Blamed For Deadly Plane Crash

Life size replica of the Sharkodile: Half shark, half crocodile!

Dinosaur-Chomping Supercrocs Ruled the Sahara

Cyborg Crocodile Would Make Captain Hook Pee His Pirate Panties

Florida Is Scrambling Crocodiles’ Brains With Magnets

Australian Cage of Death Taunts Crocodiles With Human Food

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