How to Use crocodilian in a Sentence

crocodilian

noun

• Both beasts are part of the group crocodilians, the largest living reptiles.
  — Tiffini Theisen, orlandosentinel.com, 5 Aug. 2019
• This has left the topic of what ancient crocodilians ate very much up for grabs.
  — The Economist, 28 June 2019
• Note the size difference between Razana's chompers and those of the skull of the modern crocodilian at lower left.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 4 July 2017
• Some researchers say that the detailed, external bone surface texture on the face of, say, the T. rex is just like that of a crocodilian.
  — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 27 Apr. 2023
• The team then compared Archaeopteryx’s stats to those of 55 modern birds, two crocodilians, and two species of pterosaurs, the winged reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs.
  — National Geographic, 13 Mar. 2018
• People are married to the idea that dinosaurs have this crocodilian, leathery, scaly, reptile skin.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 8 Sep. 2017
• There were dinosaurs like miniature ant-eaters, enormous crocodilian herons, tiny spiked dragons, the combination of a goose and a sloth.
  — Asher Elbein, Vulture, 11 July 2023
• This creature attained a length of at least 20 feet and is distantly related to crocodilians.
  — Hans-Dieter Sues, Smithsonian, 11 Sep. 2019
• Sir Francis Drake gave the Caymans their present name in 1586 when dangerous caiman crocodilians with an appetite for British sailors freely roamed these isles in large numbers.
  — Erik Heinrich, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2018
• That would require ancient crocodilians like thalattosuchians to stay close to land, where nests could be built.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2020
• In Mesoamerican myth, the ancient monster Cipactli, part crocodilian, part fish or toad, floats in primeval waters, like the Hindu snake of residue, Sheshanaga.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• However, most extinct dinosaurs have hyoid structures that are more like those of crocodilians—a simple pair of short rods.
  — Mindy Weisberger, Scientific American, 24 June 2018
• A June study in Evolution looked at the anatomy and sound repertoire of birds and crocodilians, the nearest living relatives of extinct dinosaurs.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2016
• For instance, scholars know precisely where T. rex falls on the technique's branching trees, bracketed by crocodilians on one side and birds on the other.
  — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 27 Apr. 2023
• None other than the crocodilian, water-sprouting Totodile.
  — Gabe Bergado, Teen Vogue, 17 May 2019
• According to the press release, the collagen collected is similar to that found in modern crocodilians and birds.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 3 Feb. 2017
• According to the press release, the collagen collected is similar to that found in modern crocodilians and birds.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 3 Feb. 2017
• High-resolution scans of the fossil revealed signs that the dinosaur’s meninges and overall brain structure resembled those of living birds and crocodilians.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 27 Oct. 2016
• The group is divided roughly into two major branches: One of them evolved to include all living birds, non-bird dinosaurs and pterosaurs, while the other includes crocodilians.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2023
• To figure out the bite force of a long-extinct T. rex, the team created a digital T. rex jaw based off muscle features found on close modern-day relatives to dinosaurs, like birds and crocodilians.
  — Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, 18 May 2017
• By comparing the small bones that stabilize the tongue from dinosaur fossils to those of modern birds and crocodilians, researchers found that most dinosaurs, including the Tyrannosaurus Rex, wouldn’t have been able to move their tongues very much.
  — National Geographic, 20 June 2018
• But after a wave of massive crocodilians made their presence known all across Florida and Texas this past weekend, experts are urging people to be extra careful.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 1 May 2018
• This lack of testing made sense, because living crocodilians have no complex tooth morphologies to analyse—so why bother?
  — The Economist, 28 June 2019
• While the creature sits close to both lineages, a few hallmarks — such as the pelvis — resemble those from dinosaurs and pterosaurs more closely than crocodilians, and the muscle scars on the femur also position the specimen closer to the dino side.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2023
• Different reef-building creatures began to take hold, and lush vegetation covered the land, setting the stage for a group of reptiles called the archosaurs: the forerunners of birds, crocodilians, pterosaurs, and the nonavian dinosaurs.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 30 Sep. 2019
• Several researchers suggested that bony plates embedded in the skin, called osteoderms, which are found in crocodilians and some other reptiles, had fused to the underlying bones of the turtle to form a solid bony shell.
  — Hans-Dieter Sues, Smithsonian, 20 Aug. 2019
• And the animals are more aggressive when cornered than native crocodilians, potentially putting people at risk of attacks.
  — Freda Kreier, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• More of Nature's Giants Purussaurus was a gargantuan crocodilian that lived in the same area and within the same time period as S. geographicus.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 17 Feb. 2020
• As such, the teeth of the almost entirely carnivorous crocodilians alive today are usually rather simple, Melstrom explains, but some of the extinct species had teeth with up to 20 separate surfaces.
  — National Geographic, 27 June 2019
• In addition to 48 bird genomes, the researchers sequenced three crocodilian genomes to pinpoint early descendent relationships.
  — Sarah Lewin Frasier, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2015

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