... droplets. Similar patterns were also found for the hepatocytes of the liver. By placing the results of our study in comparative relationship and by utilizing the phylogenetic bracket of crocodiles, birds and squamates, we suggest that the observed features are plesiomorphic characters of sauropsids...

...Craig E. Franklin; Frank Seebacher SUMMARY The effect of heating and cooling on heart rate in the estuarine crocodile Crocodylus porosus was studied in response to different heat transfer mechanisms and heat loads. Three heating treatments were investigated. C. porosus were: (1) exposed...

... allometry crocodiles diving With the possible exception of studies of the ontogeny of buoyancy control in Caretta caretta ( Milsom, 1974 , 1975 ), the relationship between submerged lung volume and voluntary body mass has not been reported previously in the literature. As pulmonary oxygen often...