crocodile
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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
But the Venn diagram of people who will love Niles the crocodile and those who care what shoes Pete Davidson wears isn’t a circle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The name combines Eosphorus, the Greek god known as the "dawn-bringer," with the Greek word "soukhos," meaning crocodile.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
The family of a three-year-old boy who was seriously injured after ending up in a crocodile enclosure have thanked zoo staff for rescuing their child.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
He was also in charge of a small crocodile Dr. van Heerden insisted on keeping.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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
Archosaurs, in turn, are the lineage that encompasses two of the best-known groups of terrestrial vertebrates: crocodiles and dinosaurs, including birds.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
Other fossils found in the same formation include elephants and crocodiles, animals that are no longer native to Japan.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 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 got the roasting heat and the crocodiles and the snakes and the long safaris up-country, selling Shell oil to the men who ran the diamond mines and the sisal plantations.
From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl
