Cr ocodilians

Cr ocodiles
and Alligator s
There are many differ-
ences between crocodiles
and alligators. These
changes include environ-
ment, body shape, snout
shape, and overall size.
Alligators tend to be big-
ger with wider snouts,
while crocodiles have
narrower snouts.

Crocodiles and alligators have much in

common, though it seems like their
environment, source of food, and biological
history.
Cr ocodiles Alligators
Alligators, unlike crocodiles, have
Some of the most savage
much wider and more powerful
creatures that have ever
jaws in general. Where a crocodile
walked the earth, the croco-
has a V shape to its snout, an alli-
dile varies in size and shape
gator’s snout is more of a U shape.
based on their immediate
They hunt around the same meals,
environment. For example,
but when they close their jaws, you
crocodiles with narrower
cant really see their toothy grin,
snouts and are below 6 feet in
unlike a crocodile.
length tend to hunt fish and Evolution of the Croco-
smaller prey. 6feet and dilian
ablove, like the saltwater
crocodile, go for bigger prey
such as antelope, wildebeest, In my personal opinion, the croco-

and sometimes humans, on a dilian is one of the most evolution-

much rarer scale. arily perfect creature. Back in the

times of the dinosaurs, there were
little differences between todays
crocodilians and the ones fro m the
past. The prehistoric Kaprasukkus,
for example, was fourty feet long
and weighed up to a few tons.
Other than size, shape, and prey,
crocodilians haven't needed to
change much over the years. They
are perfect killing machines, and
that’s why I find them so fascinat-
ing.