Alligators Vs Crocodile

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Of all the experts, zoologists may be most frustrated by public misconceptions. They believe that a whale is not a fish, a panda is not a bear, and a bat is not a bird should be common sense, but they are not to the majority of people. There is another thing bothering them: most people call crocodiles as crocodiles, and alligators as so. To relieve their stressful minds from trying to buster these myths, I will discuss three major differences between alligators and crocodiles. In fact, alligators and crocodiles are from different families. Alligators are from the alligatoridae, whereas crocodiles belong to the crocodylidae. This divergence took place about 99 million years ago, by the end of the Mesozoic, the era of dinosaurs. The easiest

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