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Entertainment CM Zoo: Gone to the gators
Posted by Sarah White on Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 11:26 AM
Have you ever seen a dinosaur? Well, according to Jay from Colorado Gators, alligators are the closest thing you'll get to a dinosaur these days. And the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo is hosting a few of Colorado Gators' best creatures this summer, for the fourth year in a row.
When asked why we should be excited about alligators invading the zoo, Jay replies, "Because they are the toughest animals on Earth!"
That being said, if you aspire to test your toughness by wrestling a gator, you'll have to venture to Alamosa, where Colorado Gators is based. You can't even pet the ones at the zoo; these are for gazers only. And they'll be there until mid-September.
- A new neighbor wishing you a happy summer.
For more information on Colorado Gators, click here.
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Here is a short blog story about the gators here at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo! Come see them today! http://cheyennemountainzooblog.blogspot.co…
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Posted by
CheyenneMtnZoo
on 06/07/2010 at 1:27 PM
There are living animals more closely related to dinosaurs than alligators, and they come to your house every day.
They are bids. Birds are direct decendants of theropod dinosaurs (the meat-eating kind) and are therefore phylogenetically still dinosaurs.
Alligators, other crocodilians and extinct earlier crurotarsians, are related to dinosaurs -- they all are archosaurs (with a special "hole" in the skull before the eye, among other things), but they branched off from the repitle lineage before dinosaurs. In fact, the crurotarsians were the ruling terrestrial predators (including some two-legged) until a chance extinction event thinned their numbers allowing dinosaurs to radiate into the niches they had occupied.
Posted by
DK Fennell
on 06/13/2010 at 7:57 AM
