How To Use Crocodilian In A Sentence
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It has been independently lost or reduced in several amniote lineages, however, including crocodilians, birds, tuataras, iguanian lizards, cetaceans, and catarrhine primates.
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Crocodilians' hearts have four chambers like mammals and birds, but there is a pore between the left and right ventricles which allows some mixing.
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Every inch of this man, every movement and word exuded his passion for the crocodilians he passed among.
Steve and Me
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There are 37 species (3 crocodilians, 8 chelonians, 14 lacertilians and 12 ophidians) distributed in 30 genera recorded so far.
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The scales are shed individually, so crocodilians do not molt (shed their skin all at once) like snakes do.
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Deliberate stone and soil swallowing has been reported for modem snakes, lizards, turtles and crocodilians serving to macerate digesta.
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“And by gator,” Dr. Schecter said in a patronizing tone, “I assume you mean the South American crocodilian species called the caiman?”
Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve
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They are found in mammals, turtles, squamates, and crocodilians, as well as a few bird taxa, particularly ratites and ducks.
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A crocodilian is any member of an order of reptiles that includes crocodiles, alligators, caimans, gavials, and related extinct forms.
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They've got these crocodilian jaws that just crunch off huge chunks of meat and bone, and then they just swallow it all.
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Did a crocodilian Deukalion and Pyrrha somehow escape the cataclysm and repopulate the terrestrial marshlands?
Stromata Blog
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And about a knickknack made from a crocodilian reptile known as a caiman, posed with a pipe in its mouth and an ashtray in its claws.
Uncle Sam Wants You to Bid on This Fine Weasel Fur Coat
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Unsustainable hunting and habitat destruction brought this large American crocodilian to the brink of extinction by the middle of the last century.
David Mizejewski: Fuel Your Car With Alligator Fat?
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Seeing as most "progessives", yourself included, do not want the CF to be fighting at all in Afstan, I see the reaction as strictly crocodilian.
Archive 2009-04-01
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The surviving crocodilians were larger animals, more like the crocs we know today, but, curiously, mostly marine.
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Most of the time crocodilians cruise slowly through the water, holding their legs against their body to reduce drag.
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Truly cold-blooded animals like lizards, newts, turtles, and crocodilians, which are superabundant farther south are missing, he said.
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Its owner turned his throat for the inspection, despite a certain grumness and crocodilian aggressiveness in the man's interest.
Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana
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Truly cold-blooded animals like lizards, newts, turtles, and crocodilians, which are superabundant farther south are missing, he said.
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Take avisit to check it out - you can actually see thedinodamagesuffered bythis crafty crocodilian from the railing high above.
Archive 2009-05-24
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Caiman belong to the group known as crocodilians, which also includes alligators and crocodiles.
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In other species, such as monitor lizards and crocodilians, the lungs are partitioned into chambers made up of an intricate net of support structures.
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The French luxury powerhouse is buying Heng Long International, a Singapore-based business that sources, tans and processes crocodilian leather.
Overheard
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In extant amniotes, however, the VN organ is situated too close to the midline to leave a mark on the maxilla, as is the anlagen of the organ in crocodilian and avian embryos.
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Another giant species of fossil crocodilian (gavial-like, in this instance) has been discovered.
Archive 2008-07-01
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Caiman belong to the group known as crocodilians, which also includes alligators and crocodiles.
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Only two crocodilian groups had sparser, and therefore less sensitive, strings of the holes running along their jaws.
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A crocodilian is any member of an order of reptiles that includes crocodiles, alligators, caimans, gavials, and related extinct forms.
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Crocodilians' senses of smell, sight, and hearing are well developed.
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But in the words of Torch blogger Mark Collins, a few crocodilian tears spilled by one blogger in particular has necessitated a response.
Archive 2009-04-01
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Flying prey can be caught by the crocodilians leaping into the air with thrusts of their powerful tail.
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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
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Some crocodilians also estivate.
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We use a little motorboat to search for the crocodilians at night, when they are active.
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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.
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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
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Mammals, crocodilians and dinosaurs independently evolved acute, pitch-sensitive hearing by elongating the lagena (called the cochlea in mammals).
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Cut out unwanted material of becomes with the crocodilian skin joining together of different color late outfit bag is distinctive, reveal a costly glamour.
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Caiman belong to the group known as crocodilians, which also includes alligators and crocodiles.
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Truly cold-blooded animals like lizards, newts, turtles, and crocodilians, which are superabundant farther south are missing, he said.
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Still more shadowy were the sinister crocodilian outlines - alligators and other horrible reptiles, culminating in the colossal lizard, the iguanodon.
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They are found in mammals, turtles, squamates, and crocodilians, as well as a few bird taxa, particularly ratites and ducks.
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Mesasaurs were small crocodilian-like anapsid reptiles of about 300 million years ago.
The Mosasaur and the missing link - The Panda's Thumb
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Still more shadowy were the sinister crocodilian outlines - alligators and other horrible reptiles, culminating in the colossal lizard, the iguanodon.
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By demonstrating one-way or "unidirectional" airflow within the lungs of alligators, results of the new study suggest 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.
RedOrbit News - Technology
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In fact, there are 23 species of alligators, crocodiles, and their kin, the caiman and gharials, and they are collectively all known as crocodilians.
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The skin of the saltwater crocodile produces the highest quality leather of the world's crocodilian species.
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In lepidosaurs, crocodilians, and birds the medial border or epicondyle of the humerus is the origin for the major flexors of the manus and carpus.
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Crocodilians' senses of smell, sight, and hearing are well developed.
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Still more shadowy were the sinister crocodilian outlines — alligators and other uncouth shapes, culminating in the colossal lizard, the iguanodon.
A Pair of Blue Eyes
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The large body size and short legs suggest that these animals lived mostly in the water, where they adopted a crocodilian life-style.
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Pterosaurs are in fact a sister group of crocodilians and dinosaurs (including birds) in the archosaur clade.
Darwinopterus, the New Flying Reptile
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A massive crocodilian creature began rising from the tip of the mountain.
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The scales are shed individually, so crocodilians do not molt (shed their skin all at once) like snakes do.
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Trilophosuchus rackhami gen. et sp. nov., a new crocodilian from the early Miocene limestones of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland.
The small, recently extinct, island-dwelling crocodilians of the south Pacific
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Being reptiles, the crocodilians lay eggs, but they are not abandoned by mother croc.
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Extant archosaurs, crocodilians and birds, employ a two-part stomach with a thin-walled, enzyme-producing anterior, the proventriculus, followed by a thick-walled muscular gizzard.
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Some of the features we see in the skull that we've never seen in a crocodilian are two horns coming out the back of the skull.
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Which is unfortunate, since every time the word crocodilian came up he gave out a little cheer.
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