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The American alligator is a uncommon success story of an endangered animal now not solely saved from extinction however now thriving. State and federal protections, habitat upkeep efforts, and decreased demand for alligator merchandise have accelerated the species' wild populace to extra than one million and developing today.
Prehistoric Characteristics
One seem to be at these menacing predators—with their armored, lizard-like bodies, muscular tails, and effective jaws—and it is obvious they are envoys from the far-off past. The species, scientists say, is greater than one hundred fifty million years old, managing to keep away from extinction sixty five million years in the past when their prehistoric contemporaries, the dinosaurs, died off.