Sentences with phrase «alligators did»

«Evan's research shows alligators didn't evolve in a vacuum with no other crocodilians around,» said co-author David Steadman, ornithology curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida.

Judging a parent whose kid falls into a gorilla exhibit or who is attacked at a Disney resort by an alligator doesn't prevent those things from happening.

Unlike humans, crocodiles and alligators don't have sex chromosomes.

Alligators don't just stick to freshwater and the prey they find there.

Because alligators don't have any salt glands, «they're subject to the same pressures as me or you when being out in saltwater,» Nifong says.

Although alligators don't have salt glands like true crocodiles, they are resourceful as they travel between freshwater and marine habitats.

While modern alligators do look prehistoric as they bake on sandbars along the Suwannee River or stroll down sidewalks on the UF campus, study authors said they are not somehow immune to evolution.

Not exact matches

In other words, when you're working toward a long - term goal (draining the swamp), don't let your time and energy be eaten up by urgent, daily tasks (slaying alligators) that don't necessarily help you achieve that more important objective.

«I've wrestled with alligators; I've tussled with a whale; I done handcuffed lightning; and throw thunder in jail.»

If you live in a swamp and an alligator attacks you, do you blame yourself for being a slow swimmer?

Or do you blame the swamp for forcing you to hang out with alligators?

It doesn't matter if he found his place at a church, a library or an alligator farm... he found a place that makes him feel happy and fulfilled despite his disability.

Save the best for the alligators and don't dote on the pancreas.

And I like to believe that somebody doesn't have friends because besides my trailer court friends and alligators, I am a very lonely man.

It is absolutely preposterous to believe everything happens by chance on the right planet with the right conditions not once but twice after the meteor killed the dinosaurs oh but wait a minute remember alligators and other reptiles evolved from the dinosaurs but wait a minute how did they evolve to these things if they was destroyed.

Learn how to set a firm foundation with core principles, and set yourself up for long - term financial success — not get - rich - quick jackpots (though, knowing how to juggle baby alligators would be a cool thing to do at parties).

Alligator meat is firm textured, but it doesn't shred like pork or flake like fish; in texture, and in flavor, it is probably most like frog's legs.

A gender - reveal video in Louisiana was assisted this week by a live alligator, who presumedly did not understand what was going on.

Don't worry, there are no alligators on Alligator Point.

He then asked my son to hold out his arm for a real alligator bite to show his friends that he really did hold one.

I don't think it's a stretch of the imagination to say that, with few exceptions (like these inspirational boys who saved a drunken idiot from certain, alligator - related doom), teens are known for making epic, often news - worthy, mistakes.

All you have to do is «kill one alligator at a time,» which means take things as they come, day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute, and breath by breath if you have too.

The extra light and fashionable bands feature an alligator clip end that attaches to baby's clothing without doing any damage.

They will love the alligator clacking toys that chomp and move as your child does.

A simple «see you later, alligator» followed by a quick hug and a kiss can do wonders for an anxious child.

I've been up close with a lot of alligators in the Everglades, and you do get a sense that they're really not that interested in you, and if you do get too close to them, they'll let you know before they'll do anything violent to you.

Even 30 million years ago, they didn't look much different,» said Evan Whiting, a former UF undergraduate and the lead author of two studies published during summer 2016 in the Journal of Herpetology and Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology that document the alligator's evolution — or lack thereof.

Cartilage and other soft tissues generally do not survive fossilization, so in the new study researchers compared dinosaur bones to castings of the dissected bones and joints of alligators and ostriches.

«They hardly ever come onto land, and they don't swim in seawater either,» he says, which helps explain how a distinct species arose, in the case of the Suwannee alligator snapping turtle, in just one river.

Alligators and many other reptiles don't have such a big initial spurt.

Chinese alligator exhibits TSD, and does not possess sex chromosomes.

«They don't need it wet all the time, but if dry events increase in frequency and intensity, this could be problematic for alligator numbers in the greater Everglades ecosystem.»

And so do the alligators — they protect bird nests from egg - stealing raccoons and other predators, but they don't work for free.

«Finding this individual does not indicate that there is a functional, stable population of wild alligator snapping turtles in Southern Illinois,» Kessler said.

Studies Farlow has done on crocodiles and alligators show the same ambiguity.

After studying the habits of these reptiles at four sites in Louisiana for a year, the scientists confirmed that alligators and crocodiles do indeed use twigs to lure unsuspecting birds to their doom.

So, Dr. Bishop and his colleagues wondered whether they could isolate CAMPs from Komodo dragon blood, as they previously had done with alligator blood to expand the library of known CAMPs for therapeutic studies.

It DOES look like an alligator!

I like our aquarium and zoo, we have beautiful parks and an amazing sculpture garden, the food is awesome and extremely kid - friendly, and 5.5 is old enough to do a few activities outside the city like a swamp tour (my 2.5 - year - old would want to swim with the alligators).

My hair didn't move an inch all day, which never seems to happen with alligator clips.

PETA also found that the animals are shot in the head with bolt guns and will try to escape — even when the damage is done and they are left bleeding in a pile of other alligators.

It doesn't seem all that important when compared to the rainbow fungi peppering the trees in Area X, like Seussian tumors, or the attacking alligator with rows of teeth like a shark, or the churning guts revealed in a vivisected stomach, spinning impossibly like a coiled snake trying to escape.

Look, science can do some amazing things that look like magic or yesterday's science - fiction, so maybe, one day, we'll have to worry about a tall gorilla, a giant wolf, and a massive alligator attacking various locations across the United States.

Hot off his headline - making press tour for The Last Movie Star, Burt Reynolds dishes on the best acting lesson he ever got («Don't act, behave»), getting arrested (by his father) for trespassing at Mar - a-Lago, and the craziest thing any fan ever sent him (a dead alligator).

It may not have featured Blastoise, the best starter evolution of all time, but it did have a big alligator, which is pretty cool in its own right.

Share some fun facts about our Presidents: Did You know that President John Quincy Adams had a pet alligator?

Did You know that President John Quincy Adams had an alligator, Martin Van Buren had two tiger cubs, and President McKinley's pet parrot could whistle, «Yankee Doodle?»

Later, I easily found information about American alligators in Wikipedia using Google, as the student had done.

Don't be surprised to see venison, alligator, or even buffalo on the menu.

A blue ball becomes an introduction to Dog, who advises Alligator on what dogs do.