Crocodiles Gallery

Asprey Christmas presents, 1926

Colour advertisement for Asprey of Bond Street displaying a wide variety of Christmas present ideas, including an attache case, a shagreen cigarette box, leather handbag, crocodile handbag pochette, a poker chip stand, race companion, pocket watch, clock, combined vanity and cigarette case and a shagreen hair brush with ivory comb

© Mary Evans Picture Library 2015 - https://copyrighthub.org/s0/hub1/creation/maryevans/MaryEvansPictureID/10271569

Deinosuchus Illustrastration

Deinosuchus
83-72 million years ago, Deinosuchus was the largest predator in North America. Deinosuchus
Deinosuchus riograndensis, an extinct giant relative of alligators, was the undisputed top predator in the rivers and estuaries along the east coast of southern Laramidia -- a huge island that formed when the rising sea divided North America into several continental islands. From fossil remains it has been estimated to have grown to about 11 metres in length and weigh 6-7 tonnes, by far exceeding any modern alligator or crocodile. It was twice as heavy as the largest tyrannosaurs of its time and, as suggested by bite marks preserved on fossil bones, it preyed on dinosaurs. At this time there were also smaller-sized Deinosuchus, which may be of a different species, living along the southern and eastern coast of the island called Appalachia. The evidence that this Appalachian population commonly preyed on turtles include bite marks preserved on fossil turtle bones

© WA Museum

Crocodile & Yellow-billed Stork, South Luangwa NP

A Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) waits alongside a Yellow-billed stork (Mycteria ibis) to steal any dropped fish

© Ben Cranke

84543115, Danger, Encroaching, Predator, Stealth, Threat