Africa’s slender-snouted crocodile is not one but two species

Mongabay
Oct 26, 2018, 12:25 pm259 pts
At first glance, the slender-snouted crocodiles living in Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa look very similar to the ones in the Gambia River in West Africa. But as it turns out, the crocodile is not one but two distinct species: one unique to West Africa and the other to Central Africa, a new study has found.…

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