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Alligators are crocodile-shaped. Both reptiles have long slender snouts with many sharp teeth. Both have long, thick tails and short stubby legs. The body is short and stocky, and there is no real neck. If you draw an oval shape with one leg sticking off at each curve, then add a long S-shaped tail on one end and a long skinny snout on the other, you have drawn an alligator.

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No. There were two species of alligator: the American Alligator and the Chinese alligator.


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