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A lake's calmness doesn't indicate that crocodiles are not hungry. – Genius Omuzira	added by geniusomuzira 5 months ago
‘ Joseph Mutondo, today the crocodiles are going to eat you, ’. – Bernard Mutondo	Found on New York Times 1 year ago
Sequential laying is the release of eggs one by one with some time gap in between two laying events. This is seen in birds. Modern reptiles, for example turtles and crocodiles, on the other hand, lay all eggs together as a clutch. – Guntupalli Prasad	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They seem to be heron-like in their habits so they would be wading in shallow water and taking fish and other swimming things like small turtles and young crocodiles and doing the same on land going after baby dinosaurs and mammals, they would have been able to strike down hard and fast, just as herons do, so it would be a quick snap down on something relatively small. – David Hone	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It is very unique. Most cloacas form a kind of slit. Sometimes it's a vertical split, sometimes it's a smiley face, sometimes it's a sour face. This thing has a V-shaped structure with a pair of nice flaring lips and there's not a living groups of animals that have morphology like that, it is somewhat similar to crocodiles but still unique. – Jakob Vinther	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Brian Wood holds an alligator head as he wears a mask made from an invasive Florida python snake in his workshop in Dania, Fla on April 8. (Charles Trainor, Jr./Miami Herald via AP) CROCODILES FLOOD MEXICAN BEACH CLOSED TO TOURISTS BECAUSE OF CORONAVIRUS A 10-foot snake could make as many as 10 masks, according to Wood. People are telling me they want to buy 5, 12 of these masks, so Ill definitely be buying snakes from local hunters. – Brian Wood	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Dinosaurs are like modern-day birds, crocodiles and lizards in that they inherited particular joints in their skulls from fish ball and socket joints, much like peoples hip joints that seem to lend themselves, but not always, to movement like in snakes, when you put a lot of force on things, theresa tradeoff between movement and stability. Birds and lizards have more movement but less stability. – Casey Holliday	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
He had his arm on the wrong side of the security glass and was then bitten by one of the crocodiles, he was heavily bandaged when we arrived on the scene. – Mikael Pettersson	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
You know, youre heading down for a normal creek-stomping adventure, and you pray for safety, you think a kid might slip on a rock or cut his foot on some glass. Youre not thinking about crocodiles. – Jim Hazelwood	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Big crocodiles are for breeding and small crocodiles are still babies. – Muhammad Nur	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Crocodiles are god's creatures that need to be protected too. – Basar Manullang	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
When he says drain the swamp, it’s not just about getting rid of all the crocodiles in the water that we don’t need. It’s about moving at a different pace. – White House	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It's a key animal from an evolutionary point of view, it's older than crocodiles and dinosaurs; it's an amphibian. So if you look at the modern salamander, its morphology and body shape is very close to the fossils of the first terrestrial vertebrates. So by studying the modern salamander we have a time window to the ancestors of all terrestrial vertebrates, including humans. – Professor Auke Ijspeert	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Where turtles came from, evolutionarily speaking, and how they are related to the other major groups of living reptiles - lizards, snakes, crocodiles and birds - has been a topic of vigorous debate for as long as we've had a theory of evolution. – Gaberiel Bever	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We even had warning signs about crocodiles (which had been spotted in the reservoirs) to keep people away. – George Madhavan	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
His wife didn't want to share an apartment with two growing crocodiles. – Jonas Wahlstrom	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
For some reason KLM (the airline) did not want crocodiles in the passenger section. – Jonas Wahlstrom	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
As one of the earliest and oldest crocodylomorphs, Carnufex was a far cry from living crocodiles. It was an agile, terrestrial predator that hunted on land, carnufex predates the group that living crocodiles belong to. – Lindsay Zanno	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The risk of damage to the biodiversity is high but we have yet to confirm any deaths of major animals including dolphins and crocodiles. – Tapan Kumer Dey	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The message was badly conveyed, going so far as to say (to pygmy women) that it was necessary to start sleeping with Bantu men. the water might be calm, but you can have crocodiles inside. – Rogatien Kitenge	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Who comes out of the jungle finds crocodiles. (Qui sort de la jungle Trouve les crocodiles) – Charles de LEUSSE	added by anonymous 10 years ago
In the sandal-tree are serpents, in the water lotus flowers, but crocodiles also; even virtues are marred by the vicious?in all enjoyments there is something which impairs our happiness. – The Hitopadesa	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm. – Malayan Proverb	added by anonymous 14 years ago

A lake's calmness doesn't indicate that crocodiles are not hungry.

– Genius Omuzira

added by geniusomuzira
5 months ago

‘ Joseph Mutondo, today the crocodiles are going to eat you, ’.

– Bernard Mutondo

Found on New York Times
1 year ago

Sequential laying is the release of eggs one by one with some time gap in between two laying events. This is seen in birds. Modern reptiles, for example turtles and crocodiles, on the other hand, lay all eggs together as a clutch.

– Guntupalli Prasad

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They seem to be heron-like in their habits so they would be wading in shallow water and taking fish and other swimming things like small turtles and young crocodiles and doing the same on land going after baby dinosaurs and mammals, they would have been able to strike down hard and fast, just as herons do, so it would be a quick snap down on something relatively small.

– David Hone

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It is very unique. Most cloacas form a kind of slit. Sometimes it's a vertical split, sometimes it's a smiley face, sometimes it's a sour face. This thing has a V-shaped structure with a pair of nice flaring lips and there's not a living groups of animals that have morphology like that, it is somewhat similar to crocodiles but still unique.

– Jakob Vinther

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Brian Wood holds an alligator head as he wears a mask made from an invasive Florida python snake in his workshop in Dania, Fla on April 8. (Charles Trainor, Jr./Miami Herald via AP) CROCODILES FLOOD MEXICAN BEACH CLOSED TO TOURISTS BECAUSE OF CORONAVIRUS A 10-foot snake could make as many as 10 masks, according to Wood. People are telling me they want to buy 5, 12 of these masks, so Ill definitely be buying snakes from local hunters.

– Brian Wood

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Dinosaurs are like modern-day birds, crocodiles and lizards in that they inherited particular joints in their skulls from fish ball and socket joints, much like peoples hip joints that seem to lend themselves, but not always, to movement like in snakes, when you put a lot of force on things, theresa tradeoff between movement and stability. Birds and lizards have more movement but less stability.

– Casey Holliday

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

He had his arm on the wrong side of the security glass and was then bitten by one of the crocodiles, he was heavily bandaged when we arrived on the scene.

– Mikael Pettersson

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

You know, youre heading down for a normal creek-stomping adventure, and you pray for safety, you think a kid might slip on a rock or cut his foot on some glass. Youre not thinking about crocodiles.

– Jim Hazelwood

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Big crocodiles are for breeding and small crocodiles are still babies.

– Muhammad Nur

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Crocodiles are god's creatures that need to be protected too.

– Basar Manullang

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

When he says drain the swamp, it’s not just about getting rid of all the crocodiles in the water that we don’t need. It’s about moving at a different pace.

– White House

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It's a key animal from an evolutionary point of view, it's older than crocodiles and dinosaurs; it's an amphibian. So if you look at the modern salamander, its morphology and body shape is very close to the fossils of the first terrestrial vertebrates. So by studying the modern salamander we have a time window to the ancestors of all terrestrial vertebrates, including humans.

– Professor Auke Ijspeert

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Where turtles came from, evolutionarily speaking, and how they are related to the other major groups of living reptiles - lizards, snakes, crocodiles and birds - has been a topic of vigorous debate for as long as we've had a theory of evolution.

– Gaberiel Bever

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We even had warning signs about crocodiles (which had been spotted in the reservoirs) to keep people away.

– George Madhavan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

His wife didn't want to share an apartment with two growing crocodiles.

– Jonas Wahlstrom

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

For some reason KLM (the airline) did not want crocodiles in the passenger section.

– Jonas Wahlstrom

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

As one of the earliest and oldest crocodylomorphs, Carnufex was a far cry from living crocodiles. It was an agile, terrestrial predator that hunted on land, carnufex predates the group that living crocodiles belong to.

– Lindsay Zanno

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The risk of damage to the biodiversity is high but we have yet to confirm any deaths of major animals including dolphins and crocodiles.

– Tapan Kumer Dey

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The message was badly conveyed, going so far as to say (to pygmy women) that it was necessary to start sleeping with Bantu men. the water might be calm, but you can have crocodiles inside.

– Rogatien Kitenge

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Who comes out of the jungle finds crocodiles. (Qui sort de la jungle Trouve les crocodiles)

– Charles de LEUSSE

added by anonymous
10 years ago

In the sandal-tree are serpents, in the water lotus flowers, but crocodiles also; even virtues are marred by the vicious?in all enjoyments there is something which impairs our happiness.

– The Hitopadesa

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.

– Malayan Proverb

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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