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Animals Life on Earth

20 Amazing Crocodile Facts

Crocodiles are aquatic reptiles, and among the most feared carnivores on Earth, because of their size, big powerful jaws, and aggressiveness. They are so successful predators – once they were living alongside the dinosaurs. After the Chicxulub impact, which happened around 66 million years ago, the non-avian dinosaurs were gone but crocodiles managed to survive. Here are the top 20 amazing crocodile facts about these fascinating beasts.

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Animals Life on Earth

20 Amazing Alligator Facts [And Misconceptions about Alligators]

Alligators are very large reptiles. An alligator is also a crocodilian – they are close cousins of crocodiles. But, unlike crocodiles – which can be found on all continents except Europe and Antarctica, they are native to only the United States and China. Here are 20 amazing alligator facts.

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Animals Life on Earth

Crocodile bigger than Lolong? [1823 Philippines Crocodile]

According to biology professor Alvin Silverstein’s 1980 book Nature’s Champions, in 1883, a giant saltwater crocodile bigger than Lolong was killed in the Philippines. It measured 27 feet (8.23 meters) from the tips of its snout to the end of its tail. It was also more than 2 tons in weight. Sources say it required the help of 40 men to bring its body ashore. And, when the massive crocodile was opened up for examination, individuals were taken aback to find the segmented remains of a horse, carved into seven distinct pieces.

There’s no photo of the crocodile, because of the record’s date, but if that story is true, it was the largest crocodile ever recorded.

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Animals Life on Earth

Largest bear in the world: Polar Bear, Grizzly, or Kodiak Bear?

Polar bears, Kodiak bears, Grizzly bears, and Kamchatka brown bears are among the largest bear species in the world. But, which one is the biggest bear in the world?

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Animals Life on Earth

21 Unique Dog and Canines (Canids) Facts

Everyone knows at least a little about dogs, or they at least know they love them. But there’s probably a lot you don’t know about man’s best friend, including where that phrase comes from!

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Animals Life on Earth

The Largest Kodiak Bear Ever Recorded [and 16 Amazing Kodiak Bear Facts]

Kodiak bear (Ursus arctos middendorffi) is a subspecies of brown bear (Ursus arctos). They inhabit the islands of the Kodiak Archipelago in southwest Alaska. They look like grizzly bears, however, they are significantly larger. Here are 15 amazing Kodiak bear facts.

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Animals Life on Earth

Sloth Facts: 10 Amazing things about these adorable mammals

Sloths are sluggish tree-dweller mammals of the rainforests of Central and South America. They are famous for their languid movements. Sloths spend most of their time hanging upside down in the tree branches and munching on leaves, twigs, and buds.

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Prehistoric Animals Life on Earth

Largest dinosaurs ever lived [2023 update]

Identifying the largest dinosaurs ever lived isn’t an easy task, because it’s very rare to unearth a complete fossil. Furthermore, only a tiny percentage of these amazing animals were ever fossilized, and most of these “lucky” bodies will remain buried underground forever. So, we may never know exactly what dinosaur was the biggest (or the tiniest) ever.

Despite this fact, size always has been one of the most interesting aspects of these prehistoric animals. There are extreme variations in their size, from the tiny hummingbirds, which can weigh as little as three grams, to the titanosaurs, which could weigh as much as 70 tonnes, or even more.

Here are the largest dinosaurs ever lived.

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Animals Evolution Life on Earth Prehistoric

The Visual History of Fish

Everybody knows most life came from the water, but how did it start? And how did it get where it is now?

In this article, we cover approximately 200 million years of fish evolution, from the first pre-vertebral filter feeders to the first tetrapod walking on land to the development of modern sharks – and everything in between.

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Biology Animals Life on Earth

Dolly, the first mammal cloned from an adult cell was born on July 5, 1996

On July 5, 1996, a female sheep named Dolly, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell was born. Scientists from the Roslin Institute (an animal sciences research institute at Easter Bush, Midlothian, Scotland) in Scotland successfully cloned Dolly using the process of nuclear transfer from a cell taken from a mammary gland.