Crocodilian

/ˌkɹɒkəˈdɪliən/

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Noun(3 words)
crocodilecrocodilian reptilecrocodilus

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diapsiddiapsid reptile

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1989, Walter P. Coombs, Jr., Modern analogs for dinosaur nesting and parental behavior, James Orville Farlow (editor), Paleobiology of the Dinosaurs, Issue 238, page 47, Mound-nesting crocodilians and megapodes appear to be indifferent to nest-site parameters, but susceptibility of crocodilian mound nests to predation or drowning may be altered by site selection.

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Superb predators, the crocodilians are reptiles, and the only survivors of the archosaurs that included dinosaurs.

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Crocodilians are essentially lizard-like in basic shape and are adapted to a largely aquatic life. ln water, they hunt and eat their prey and advertise their size and location by bellowing.

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However, it is possible that baby titanoboas and Titanoboa eggs were preyed upon by the same crocodilians the adults ate.

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