How To Use crocodilian In A Sentence
- In fact, there are 23 species of alligators, crocodiles, and their kin, the caiman and gharials, and they are collectively all known as crocodilians.
- The oldest is the Gehannam Formation (ca 40-41 million years old) consisting of white marly limestone and gypseous shale and yielding many skeletons of archaic whales (archaeocetes), sirenians (sea cows), shark teeth, turtles, and crocodilians. Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley), Egypt
- Some crocodilians also estivate.
- We use a little motorboat to search for the crocodilians at night, when they are active.
- But bipedalism in birds is a highly specialized form of bipedal motion; the large tails of birds' ancestors, which in crocodilians still anchor the leg muscles, have mostly vanished in birds.
- By demonstrating one-way or "unidirectional" airflow within the lungs of alligators, the new study - published in the Friday, Jan. 15 issue of the journal Science - means that such a breathing pattern likely evolved before 246 million years ago, when crocodilians split from the branch of the archosaur family tree that led to pterosaurs, dinosaurs and birds. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
- Mammals, crocodilians and dinosaurs independently evolved acute, pitch-sensitive hearing by elongating the lagena (called the cochlea in mammals).
- Cut out unwanted material of becomes with the crocodilian skin joining together of different color late outfit bag is distinctive, reveal a costly glamour.
- Caiman belong to the group known as crocodilians, which also includes alligators and crocodiles.
- Truly cold-blooded animals like lizards, newts, turtles, and crocodilians, which are superabundant farther south are missing, he said.
