Nile crocodiles are two types

Nile crocodiles are two types

U.S. researchers discovered that the "Nile crocodile", discovered by the ancient Egyptians, is already two types, called the same name.

The researchers from the associations specialized in zoology at San Diego, that the genetic analysis of samples taken from the crocodiles, including a sample of the mummified remains of a crocodile, showed that the "Nile crocodile" are two, not one type as previously thought.

The Marlies Hawk the world of genetic research at the Institute to maintain the animals in San Diego, this research offers a distinctive surprise .. Nile crocodile is not a kind one, as was thought, but there are two living together, according to the newspaper stated time. "

Hawk said that the most interesting is not that close to the two types but the one closer to the crocodiles of the New World.

He pointed out that the number of crocodiles of this type, known as "" Crocodylus suchus "down to a large extent to the extent that it has disappeared from some places, and not to identify it will damage the" Nile crocodile "more of his testimony.

He stressed that this kind "is unique and deserves to be applied to maintain a strategy different from the method of maintaining the Nile crocodiles in East and South Africa."

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