Crocodiles

• Your closing jaws exert anywhere from 40 to 80 pounds of pressure. The closing jaws of a 120-pound crocodile exert about 1,540 pounds of pressure.
• Sea crocodiles really do cry. It's one of the ways they eliminate salt from the system.
• Oddly enough, a newly hatched crocodile is three times the size of the egg from which it just emerged.
• Crocodiles can't chew. Be forewarned, though, they CAN (and do) bite!
• Look at your thumb. That's about the size of a crocodile's brain.
• Ancient Egyptians embalmed crocodiles and buried them in family plots. Archeologists near Egypt's Tebtynis have found thousands of such graves.
• There are 23 species of crocodiles in the world. Find out more.
• American crocodiles can be distinguished from American alligators by their longer, more narrow snouts and by their lower teeth, which are visible even when the crocodile's mouth is closed. Source.
• The only natural enemy of a young crocodile (not counting man) is an old crocodile.