Animal Kingdom Loves to Eat Over millennia, many marvelous mouths have evolved for biting, chewing, crushing, slurping, swallowing and licking lips after all, kinds of delicious meals or what I assume are delicious meals to them.

If you were a leatherback sea turtle, for example, your mouth would be lined with these cartilaginous spikes so you could chop down on stinging jellyfish.

If you were a woodpecker, the back of your tongue would be wrapped around your brain.

Help stabilize your skull while the front of your tongue fished out insects from tree bark.

And if you were a blue whale, well, you basically just have a giant toothbrush for a mouth, combing the water for krill.

But when it comes to biting, crushing and sheer prehistoric power, one particular animal comes to mind.

A crocodile, evolutionarily speaking, The Crocodilian group is hundreds of millions of years old and includes crocodiles, alligators, caimans and burials.

E mean, just look at this thing.

Not only can these living dinosaurs hold their breath for hours sleep with one eye open and cry little crocodile tears, but they also have one of the strongest fights ever measured, clocking in at over 16,000 Newtons, which we all know is the force that would give a massive 1 kg an acceleration of 1 m per second per second or 100,000 diets Newton time.

In other words, crocodilians bite down with the strength roughly 17 times stronger than a human gnawing at a tough stick.

And while maybe no surprise that they make us look about as effective as adult pair of tweezers, even hyenas can only chopped down in about 1/4 of that.

And they can crush a giraffes femur.

And it makes sense because crocks have been known to eat pretty much anything.

Not only fish, frogs, crabs, insects but also birds, turtles, pigs, buffalo monkeys, porcupines, sharks, snakes, zebras and even other crocodiles.

And if you're wondering how all that's possible, well, let's take a look at the crocodilian jaw.

We're now discovering that their mouths are literally double jointed.

In addition to the primary jaw joint at the rear of the school, which opens and closes their mouths, they have a second jaw joint called the Terror Go Mandibular.

This joint works like a brace, sort of like your knee, helping to distribute force in preventing the job from twisting or dislocating as a chalks.

A bunch of their bite force comes from a muscle called the adductor mandibular posterior.

Near the second joint, we mammals lost it a while back, but it's the same one T Rex used to chow down on its prey, so just steer clear that mouth, okay, But luckily for the field, biologists and wildlife veterinarians like myself, the muscles of Crock would use to open that jaw arm or for stability than strength, meaning it's quite tough for them to open their mouths if restricted.

In fact, when we need to study, treat or transport them way, often hold their jaws together with rubber bands or even electrical table, please don't try this at home.

Filling these impressive jaws are 60 some hollow teeth, which are constantly being replaced by new teeth underneath a single crock in cycle through thousands of teeth in their lifetime.

Making them Polly Fire didn't just like sharks, But despite all of these teeth, crocs don't actually to their food.

They don't even use their tongue because it's fixed in place.

Instead, when dinner, camping in one bite, approx like Sean and perform the death roll which looks a little something like this.

With moves like this, some crock species can eat upto half of their body weight in just one meal, just for reference.

That would be the equivalent of me eating 10 Henry's in one sitting without chewing.

Despite their leathery and tough exterior, thes incredible creatures are hypersensitive to their environment, even with that ferocious mountain.

Unlike alligators, crocodiles could move between fresh and saltwater easily, thanks to special glands in their mouth, which is a pretty rare animals superpower.

They can also sense tiny changes in pressure and vibrations around them, with these indents on their job, helping to locate prey and dark or murky water.

And they're surprisingly family oriented when the time comes to move those hatchlings from the safety of their nest, crocodilian moms use those ferocious mouse to carry them tenderly to the water, careful not to crush them.

It's been said that their snouts are more sensitive than a human fingertip.

Crocodilians have a vicious reputation, but they aren't immune to human impact.

Remember that Garel I showed you.

At one point, it was estimated there were only 200 breeding adults left in the world today, thanks to intensified research and conservation efforts.

There are over 2000 living in central India's Shamble River, and I've personally worked with the world's most endangered crocodilian, the Philippine crocodile.

This individuals reach a size where she has a much better chance of surviving in the wild.

And so we're going to be releasing her tomorrow.

And ideally, she's gonna find a boyfriend and they're gonna make babies.

And they're gonna help the population of these crocodiles.

That's why organizations like the Mob a Y, a foundation in the Crocodile Research Coalition remind us that this success story is far from over.

You cannot just protect the crocodiles, just protect a species.

So that's great.

We have now stabilized the crocodile population, but its prey population has depleted.

Its habitat has been lost.

Our mission is to promote crocodile conservation as well as conservation of their habitat throughout Central America and the Caribbean through research, education and community involvement.

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I'm Evan Anton, and I'll see you next time on seeker.