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Self-organized patterning of crocodile head scales by compressive folding. [PDF]

open access: yesNature
Santos-Durán GN   +4 more
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Crocodiles And Alligators Are Very Different

open access: yes, 2006
Gibbons, J. Whitfield
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Crocodiles and alligators: Antiamoebic and antitumor compounds of crocodiles

open access: yesExperimental Parasitology, 2017
Crocodiles exist in unsanitary environments, feed on rotten meat, are often exposed to heavy metals such as arsenic, cadmium, cobalt, chromium, mercury, nickel, lead, selenium, tolerate high levels of radiation, and are amid the very few species to survive the catastrophic Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event, nonetheless they can live for up to a 100 ...
Ruqaiyyah Siddiqui   +2 more
exaly   +4 more sources

Alligators, Crocodiles and the Monstrous Uncanny

open access: yesContinuum, 2006
In north Queensland during October 2004 a crocodile attacked a man in a tent and dragged him out of it, only to be saved from a worse fate by the valiant efforts of a grandmother who jumped on the back of the croc who released the man and then proceeded to attack her.
Rod Giblett
exaly   +4 more sources
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Perfluorinated chemicals found in alligators, crocodiles

C&EN Global Enterprise, 2016
Perfluorinated compounds (PFCs)—industrial chemicals that have tainted drinking water supplies in locales across the world—are accumulating in large reptiles. In two studies, researchers at Hollings Marine Laboratory in Charleston, S.C., and affiliated institutions found PFCs in the blood plasma of American alligators in the southeastern U.S.
Jessica Morrison
exaly   +2 more sources

Do crocodiles and alligators hold the key to cancer treatment?

open access: yesBMJ, 2016
By 2030, the global cancer burden is expected to nearly double, growing to 21.4 million cases and 13.2 million deaths. Cancer is often linked to environmental pollutants, chemicals, infectious agents, genetics, hormones, and radiation. From visits to crocodile sanctuaries, it is evident that crocodiles can live in unhygienic conditions; feed on rotten
Ruqaiyyah Siddiqui   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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