Adding to the intrigue, some of its bones bore characteristics often found in digging animals. Today's crocodiles dig burrows to escape extreme temperatures and it's possible that Orthosuchus did ...

Henry, the world's oldest crocodile, celebrates his 124th birthday in Crocworld, South Africa, showing the secrets of his ...

One account, CNAnimalRightsAlert, shared a distressed message to X, writing: "The crocodile at a zoo in Guangzhou, #China , is so thin that it's just skin and bones. "If it didn't move ...

Picture shows a crocodile that is so thin that it is just skin and bones in Guangzhou Zoo in China, undated. The video was shared on Douyin - the Chinese version of TikTok on Dec. 5, 2024.

Crocodile body scales develop from what scientists ... This folding begins when the skin is growing faster than the underlying bone and when the skin itself becomes either more elastic or stiff.

Henry the Nile crocodile will celebrate his 124th birthday at the Crocworld Conservation Centre in South Africa on Dec. 16.