Crocodilians feeding their young?: More and more we are realizing how closely birds and crocodilians are related. They have many similar adaptations and behaviors. However one distinct difference is that crocodilians are not known to feed their young. Unlike most birds,...
Courtship behavior was observed in a captive group of about 150 individually-marked, adult American alligators Alligator mississippiensis over a three year period....
Adult alligators perform two conspicuous social displays, bellows and headslaps. Both of these behaviors are preformed from a "head oblique tail arched" (HOTA) posture....
Green screen technology was used by National Geographic Television to make a great video of all 23 species of crocodilians morphing from one species to the next. Since the St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park is the only place in the world that has every...
Insights into the Ecology and Evolutionary Success of Crocodilians Revealed through Bite-Force and Tooth-Pressure Experimentation...
By using an endoscope (a small camera that can be inserted in the body cavity), Dr. Maud Lafortune of the University of Florida's Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital, was able to evaluate the respiratory tract of alligators. The camera was slowly inserted down the trachea of...
An ancient ironreveals new mysteries: mummy DNA ressurects a cryptic species with the Nile crocodile....
The Science behind Mythbusters on Discovery Channel....