American Alligator

The American alligator typically grows to about fourteen feet in length and can live thirty-five to fifty years. Alligators live inland in fresh water in the southeastern United States, unlike their cousins the American crocodiles, which are coastal.

Alligators, crocodiles, caimans and gharials are vestiges of the great Age of Reptiles. Relics of an ancient, much larger group that existed in the Mesozoic era 225 to 65 million years ago, they have changed little since then. Despite their antiquity, they have brains and hearts that are more developed than any other living reptile. All of the alligators and crocodiles are carnivores and will eat anything they can overtake. Cold-blooded, they spend their days feeding and basking in the sun. In all crocodiles and alligators, fertilization is internal; and all lay eggs.

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