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There is a very good reason why the business of snapping pictures of wildlife is best left to professionals: animals can be fairly unpredictable, and odds are amateurs will get hurt while trying to catch them on camera.
In case anyone doubts the truth of my previous statement, check out the video above, which shows... |
25 March 2013
05:55 GMT |
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Cat owners are all too familiar with the fact that, when a cat wants something, it will go to incredible lengths just to get its way.
The domestic cat in this video is nothing if not dead sure that it wants to sit right by the water's edge and admire the view.
Hence its chasing away a crocodile that does its... |
22 February 2013
04:32 GMT |
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This clip literally jumped out at me today – it reveals a crocodile launching itself at a tourist… from a rock.
Ulrik Bergsland, one of the three friends featured here, posted this clip on VideoSift and YouTube. The incredibly calm and collected cameraman is Jakob Hellberg. The man being attacked by the crock ... |
19 December 2012
12:41 GMT |
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A study led by Duncan B. Leitch and Kenneth C. Catania at Vanderbilt University in Nashville shows that beyond the rigid appearance of a crocodile's skin is hidden one of the most intense senses of touch in the animal world. Scientists discovered that the scaly surface of the body of crocodiles and alligators i... |
28 November 2012
03:47 GMT |
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Human remains are found as a crocodile is shot down and cut open in Australia. The croc attacked one adult and one child on Friday, November 16, pulling the 7-year old girl with it.
According to the Sun, the incident occurred 210 miles (337 km) east of the city of Darwin, in Australia, as several people were swimmin... |
19 November 2012
08:51 GMT |
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Unless one is seriously mistaken with respect to their natural agility and strength, one knows to stay as far away from crocodiles as possible. Still, this video provides us with some new insights into how amazing these reptiles really are.
Most people work on the assumption that crocodiles take down large prey suc... |
5 September 2012
10:41 GMT |
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Botswana's Okavango Delta recently witnessed an amazing battle between a mother lion and a crocodile. Apparently, while the lioness was trying to cross the river with its cubs, the animal suddenly became aware of the fact that said reptile was hiding in the murky waters, waiting to feed on one or two of the ig... |
25 July 2012
09:52 GMT |
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This past Sunday, Lolong, a saltwater crocodile caught in the Philippines, went into the Guinness World Record book for being the largest representative of its species presently living in captivity.
Weighing more than a ton and measuring up to 20.24 feet (6.77 meters), the animal raises considerable fears that othe... |
2 July 2012
05:24 GMT |
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Researchers from the Museum of Texas Tech discovered and identified what is believed to be the oldest crocodile ancestor ever to be found. It seems that the animal lived in the tropical rainforests of West Texas, which scientists say that it looked more like Costa Rica, some 225 million years ago. Sankar Chatterjee... |
14 January 2011
08:33 GMT |
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T-Rex is by far the most famous of dinosaur species. For 150 years, Tyrannosaurus rex was considered the largest carnivorous species that have ever roamed the earth. And it was, indeed, a huge beast - up to 12.8 (42 ft) in length and 7.2 tonnes in weight. Bigger than an elephant! Meanwhile, in 1993, a longer carnivor... |
7 May 2008
04:03 GMT |
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Nowadays, the seas belong mainly to fish and sea mammals. But during the Mesozoic time, the sea was a reptilian realm. There are very few reptiles living in the sea now compared to the times of the dinosaurs. 1.Today, there are seven species of sea turtles. They appeared during the Jurassic period (200-150 Ma ago), t... |
21 April 2008
11:26 GMT |
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Today, only five groups of reptiles still exist: chelonians (turtles and terrapins), Sphenodontia (the tuatara of New Zealand), lizards, snakes and crocodilians (crocodiles, alligators and caymans). (there is also a recently recognized group related to lizards and snakes, Amphisbaenia). They are relict groups (except... |
18 April 2008
16:11 GMT |
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We rather associate alligators and crocodiles with death, but these creatures could one day save your life, as a research team signaled at the 235th national meeting of the American Chemical Society. Blood proteins of the alligators could deliver new powerful antibiotics against infections accompanying diabetic ulcer... |
8 April 2008
02:47 GMT |
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Crocodiles are the closest living relatives of dinosaurs (if we exclude birds). Surprisingly or not, they evolved from land animals, fact revealed for example by their longer hind limbs. The first crocodiles during the Triassic (early Mesozoic) even ran on two feet!Now, a Brazilian team has described in a study publi... |
27 March 2008
05:29 GMT |
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What makes crocodiles and alligators so feared is not only their sheer power and enormous toothed jaws, but also the stealth of their attacks: there's no ripple warning the victim that the huge monster is approaching until the quick deadly dash. Researchers have been puzzled at the smoothness of their movement i... |
15 March 2008
06:57 GMT |
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Everglades National Park was founded in 1947 in southern Florida to protect the fauna and flora of a territory of 600,000 hectares (6,000 square km or 2,400 square mi) of an unique but fragile beauty, one of the ecologically most menaced American territories. 1.400 mi (2.200 km) of canals and 125 surveillance structu... |
29 February 2008
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Crocodiles do deserve they reputation: they hunt and eat everything, from fish and other small preys to buffalo and cattle; even lions were drawn and eaten by crocodiles. All this without mentioning the threat they pose to people. And a large meal can be enough for them for one year: crocodiles can ingest up to 23% o... |
5 February 2008
02:59 GMT |
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Crocodiles are the living relatives of the only surviving Archosauria group of reptiles (birds are directly evolved from dinosaurs, thus living dinosaurs). But what you may have not suspected is that crocodiles evolved from land animals (even if you are accustomed with the image of the beast stalking in the water), f... |
1 February 2008
03:19 GMT |
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1. The largest crocodile species is saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus), encountered from India to northern Australia and Fiji. In can reach 7 m (23 ft) in length and 1 tonne in weight! At 5 m (17 ft) length, it already has 0.5 tonne!Even so, a crocodile egg is no larger than that of a goose!The smallest crocodi... |
3 November 2007
08:06 GMT |
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Some beliefs are due to a lack of scientific knowledge, some come from legends and others are the cause of misspellings from one language to another or even sensory illusions! Here are just 10 of them:1.Camels do not store water in their humps. This widespread belief comes from the fact that, while crossing the deser... |
7 July 2007
07:32 GMT |
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Allegations about lousy conditions on the state-run Shoushan Zoo in Kaohsiung, the second largest city of Taiwan, where a crocodile bit off the forearm of a veterinarian last month seem to explain the attack. The gruesome incident, which took place on April 11, was captured in photos wide spread by international med... |
19 May 2007
05:55 GMT |
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Steve Irwin made famous through his crocodile wrestling the spectacular spin with its devastating results of these reptiles. Now a team made of a biologist and physicist, based on high-speed video recordings of young alligators spinning realized a scientific approach to this behavior. This way, they created a first m... |
4 April 2007
05:39 GMT |
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Crocodiles are as old as dinosaurs. Now, researchers made an astonishing discovery from the period when crocodiles' prey was formed by dinosaurs. The fossil compasses about 50 % of a 1.8-2.4 m (6- 8-ft) crocodile, including long, needlepoint teeth found imbedded in Jurassic rock on private property in the Snowsh... |
19 March 2007
10:32 GMT |
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