crocodile
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Crocs on Thursday is introducing a new member of its marketing team: a smiling, 6-foot crocodile mascot named Niles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Crocs is the latest to join a parade of new brand characters with Niles, a 6-foot crocodile.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Eosphorosuchus lacrimosa offers evidence that early crocodile relatives were already developing different feeding adaptations near the beginning of the "Age of Reptiles," during the late Triassic Period, 252 to 201 million years ago.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
A local authority has launched an investigation into the care of a man arrested after a three-year-old boy was seriously injured in a crocodile enclosure.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
They followed her in single file back down the corridor, like children in a school crocodile.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
In Zambia’s Kafue National Park, Ila Safari Lodge, owned by Green Safaris, has its own solar-powered boat, which is used for expeditions in search of hippo pods and Nile crocodiles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Long before dinosaurs ruled the continents and modern crocodiles first appeared, their ancestors were already going through a decisive phase in their evolutionary history.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
In other words, the new fossil helps us understand a phase preceding the rise of dinosaurs and crocodiles, when their close relatives were still experimenting with different body shapes, postures, and modes of locomotion.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
Like tap dancing atop crocodiles, cold-water swimming is unlikely ever to become a mainstream pursuit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
I knew crocodiles must be in the river and that they could smell blood.
From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau
