What is the difference between aligators and crocodiles?

Question

What is the difference between aligators and crocodiles? and where do you find them?!?

Answer 1

In terms of physical differences the easiest way to tell the difference between the two is that a crocodile has a very long, narrow, V-shaped snout, while the alligator's snout is wider and U-shaped. Another physical difference between the crocodile and the alligator is that the crocodile's upper and lower jaws are nearly the same width, so the teeth are exposed all along the jaw line in an interlocking pattern, even when the mouth is closed. They also have an enormous 4th tooth on the lower jaw that is accommodated by depressions in the upper jaw just behind the nostrils.

n alligator, on the other hand, has a wider upper jaw, so when its mouth is closed the teeth in the lower jaw fit into sockets of the upper jaw, hidden from view. Only the teeth of the upper jaw are exposed along the lower jaw line. Even the enormous 4th tooth on the bottom jaw, which is exposed in a crocodile, is hidden in the alligator. Another physical difference is that crocodiles have a lighter olive brown coloration, while alligators appear blackish. Alligators also prefer freshwater while crocodiles like brackish water and sometimes even ocean. I hope this helped, and sorry it is so long!

Answer 2

The fourth tooth in the lower jaw of a croc is visible when the mouth is closed. In an alligator, it is hidden. Aligators are found only in the SE U.S. and China. Crocs are found in Africa, Australia, Asia, and coastal Florida. There are also caimans in S. Amer. & gavials in India.

Answer 3

Florida for fresh water gators.  The over size of the animals, and the size of the snout.  Crocks are bigger.