Efforts to reintroduce Chinese alligators, a critically endangered species, into its native habitat have scored a success: baby alligators.
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Alligators Surprisingly Monogamous, Study Finds
A study reveals that up to 70 percent of female alligators returned to the same mate for several years.
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Credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
An alligator suns itself at St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge in Florida.
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Gator vs. Python
Credit: Lori Oberhofer, , National Park Service
An American alligator fights with an invasive python in Everglades National Park. The gator appears to be winning, but pythons sometimes come out ahead…Read More »
in these struggles and have even eating alligators. Less «
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Credit: Lori Oberhofer, National Park Service
A Burmese python (Python molurus) peeks over the head of an alligator that holds the python's body in its mouth in Everglades National Park. Invasive…Read More »
pythons have clashed with gators in Florida, sometimes eating the toothy reptiles. Less «
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Credit: Tracy Enright , U.S. Geological Survey
This American alligator could easily go unnoticed swimming in the dark waters of Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida.
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Bigger in Texas
Credit: Dennis Demcheck , U.S. Geological Survey
This large alligator was spotted lurking in Anahuac, Tex.
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Credit: Liuqf | Dreamstime.com
Chinese alligator, called Alligator sinensis, in the Yangtze River.
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Dwarf Crocodiles Split into 3 Species
Credit: Mitchell J. Eaton, AMNH
The dwarf crocodile O. tetraspis eats a captures a land crab at Loango National Park, Gabon.
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Ancient Cat-Size Croc Had Armored Tail
Credit: Mark Witton, University of Portsmouth.
The ancient crocodile relative Pakasuchus kapilimai likely snagged insects and small mammals for food. (Shown here in an artist's rendering.)
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Credit: Stave Zack/Wildlife Conservation Society.
Among crocodilians, Crocodylus rhombifer (shown here) is one of the world’s most endangered species with the smallest natural distribution. In Cuba,…Read More »
the species coexists with the American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus). Less «
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Global Warming Could Doom Male Crocodiles
Credit: Oscar Baldomero
Nile crocodiles are among the fiercest predators in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, yet their population has shrunk due to habitat loss and hunting. Dr.…Read More »
Alison Leslie of University of Stellenbosch suggests that climate change will be a further setback to crocodile numbers. Less «
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