Shark stack

Yacare Caiman, 2020 via jetix

https://flic.kr/p/2kymMdL

#photography
#caimans

the latest common descent podcasts on Boas and Pythons, on Leaves, and on Alligators and Caimans have all been very good but I've been lax in posting about them.
https://commondescentpodcast.com/2024/07/20/episode-196-boas-and-pythons/
https://commondescentpodcast.com/2024/07/06/episode-195-leaves/
https://commondescentpodcast.com/2024/06/22/episode-194-alligators-and-caimans/

#boas
#pythons
#leaves
#alligators
#caimans
#reptiles
#plants
#commonDescent

Max Matza: »A Colombian luxury #handbag #designer who pleaded guilty to #smuggling purses made of the #skins of protected #vleesmolen reptiles has been sentenced to 18 months in prison.

Nancy Gonzalez, who has made handbags carried by Sex and the City actors and Britney Spears, was sentenced on Monday in a Miami federal court.

Gonzalez, 71, broke an international #treaty by illegally importing bags made from #caimans and #pythons.«

https://www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68879020.amp

Please listen closely as our menu options have changed:

For #Alligators, press 1.

For #Crocodiles, press 2.

For #Caimans, press 3.

For #Gharials, press 4.

For all other crocodilians, please hold on the line.

Fossil of Deep-Snouted Alligator Species Found in Thailand https://www.sci.news/paleontology/alligator-munensis-12106.html

An #extinct deep-snouted Alligator species from the #Quaternary of #Thailand and comments on the #evolution of crushing dentition in alligatorids https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-36559-6

"The newly-identified species is closely related to the #ChineseAlligator (#Alligator sinensis), the only living representative of Alligatoridae (the crown-group of #caimans and #alligators) outside the #Americas."