Interesting insight, thanks. But I had always heard a slightly different
account of how crocodiles got their name. When the Greeks first catalogued
crocs they called them "stone worms" or "pebble worms" which was directly
related to their osteoderms and how their skin has a stone-like appearance. I
think I read this in eyelids of morning, but I'm not sure. Have you ever heard
this theory?
Thanks,
Trace

--- In herpetologycentral@yahoogroups.com, "Dr . Syed . S . Ahmed"
<akif1999@...> wrote:
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> --- In HERPS_@yahoogroups.com, "Dr . Syed . S . Ahmed" <akif1999@> wrote:
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> The crocodile gets its name from the Greeks who observed them in the Nile
river. The Greeks called them krokodilos, a compound word from kroke, which
means "pebbles" and drilos, which means "worm". To the Greeks, this "worm of the
stones" was so named because of the crocodiles habit of basking in the sun on
gravel-covered river banks.
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