How Did the Crocodiles Get to America?

How Did the Crocodiles Get to America?

Have you ever wondered how crocodiles got to America? Do you think they were brought by humans? Or that they swam the entire ocean to get there? I invite you to watch this video to find out!

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• Narrated by: Christopher Klancir

• Background music:
On the Island - Godmode
Eternal Garden - Dan Henig

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[paulofearghail]

What was neglected is that during the time (10-30 million years ago) when these migrations happened, the distance between Africa and South America was much less than today.

[delmccormack]

The distance between the americas and Africa wasn't always 4k miles. At one point it was only a few inches.

[seanmckelvey]

At varying times throughout the existence of Crocodilians the distances between landmasses was much closer than today, due to things like continental drift and the ice age lowering sea levels. Given the fact that Crocodiles are far more tolerant of salt water than Alligators and the fact that some species today frequently travel great distances at sea it's really not even remotely surprising to me that they spread so widely across the globe. It's probably this intolerance of salt water and presence of Crocodiles that largely prevented the Alligators from being more widely distributed.

[kostya]

I was expecting to hear the crocodiles swam from Africa to America's to get there, but I thought the same case with Australia, imagine swimming that far! 4000 miles!!! Some have been known to do 600 miles to ocean but 4000+!!!

[TheMagnaficent]

Regardless of what some people say and the truth to it crocode is an amazing animal and people should feel privileged to share the world with them while being careful and setting boundaries between them

[mnkash]

Imagine if crocodiles did cross the Bering land bridge 
cave lions fighting wolves
Crocodiles walks by
Lions and wolves: what the

[vwsandvettes]

Its true... all crocodiles have a face only their mother could love, but the American crocodile is especially homely with that distinctive "bump" on its snout!

[pardefarmeaurx]

Africa and North America were also a few thousand miles closer 7, 000, 000 years ago than they are now.

[natedogg]

This is all theory not fact. It's so crazy how people present these wild numbers of years as fact.

[dmandaman]

U also have to think, aquatic crocs thousands and millions of years ago were much bigger than today's and the continents were closer together as well do the migrating wouldn't have been as great as it is today

[topherbec]

They flew there when crocodiles still had wings.

[justinpelletier]

What about the American Alligator? Same way? There’s no Gators in Africa. How did Alligators and Caimans get to the America’s?

[russellaustin]

They took a midnight flight that nobody knew. Otherwise they just were born here.

[neko]

maa, u wont believe what happened
dont tell me its raining frogs and fishes again
no ma, its flooding crocodiles and surfing monkeys

[TheAbscond]

You didn't take into account that crocodiles are Chad's that go wherever tf they want 😂

[vincenthickey]

Fascinating. The distance between Africa and new world was shorter back then, so this theory sound more plausible during the suggested time we think it happened.

[cygnusprime]

"The monkeys obviously weren't smart enough to intentionally craft rafts themselves"--without context, this sounds like something Frieza or Uncle Ruckus would say.

[Calebya]

Crocodiles always are carrying their luggage

[robertgoss]

Thank you for pronouncing "epoch" correctly. I cringe inside every time I hear some narrator say, "ee-pock, " with the accent on the first syllable. It's right up there with "process-eeze, " meaning the plural of "process."

Crocodile which is an evolutionary miracle.
We should never kill them therefore Crocodiles are indirectly useful predators for human. 🐊 🐊 🐊