crocodile
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Gift Nyaruparo was collecting red worms last year to use as fishing bait along the Zambezi in Zimbabwe when a 6-foot crocodile bit his left hand and tried to drag him into the water.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026
I’m reluctant to say which of her band members was dressed as a crocodile since I can’t check my memory against a photo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
When the simulations reduced sunlight by 5% or 10%, warm regions near the equator remained suitable for crocodile relatives.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
But for an intentionally outrageous film like “The Devils,” where Reed hurls a plastic crocodile out of a window, rules can be relaxed.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026
And waiting for them under the surface would be the crocodile.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
Clifford Chikuwe, a taxidermist in Dande, starts each day by inspecting a shaded area where the freshly hunted heads and skins of buffalo, elephants and crocodiles are left to dry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026
Locals complain about elephants trampling crops and homes, and about crocodiles attacking people who go to rivers to wash or fish.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026
The researchers emphasized that favorable temperatures were probably only one reason crocodiles survived the mass extinction.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
Instead, Austronaga was closely related to land-dwelling archosaurs, the broader reptile group that includes crocodiles and dinosaurs.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026
So we decided that despite the big crocodiles in the river, we would risk it and wade across.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
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