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More Great Links

• Florida Museum of Natural History: Crocodile Biology Database
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• Animal Diversity Web. "Crocodilia." 2002. (Feb. 27, 2009)http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Crocodilia.html.
• Burton, Maurice and Burton, Robert. "International Wildlife Encyclopedia." Marshall Cavendish. 2002. (Feb. 25, 2009)http://books.google.com/books?id=g2_St32S_5wC
• Florida Museum of Natural History. "Crocodile Talk." (Feb. 27, 2009)http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/cnhc/cbd-faq-q6.htm
• Florida Museum of Natural History. "Do crocodiles cry 'crocodile tears'?" (Feb. 27, 2009)http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/cnhc/cbd-faq-q6.htm
• NOVA. "Outlasting the Dinosaurs." Public Broadcasting Systems. December 2003. (Feb. 27, 2009)http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/crocs/whos/
• University of California Museum of Paleontology. "Archosauria: Systematics." (Feb. 27, 2009)http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/archosy.html
• University of California Museum of Paleontology. "The Great Archosaur Lineage." (Feb. 27, 2009)http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/archosy.html