Are crocodiles like dinosaurs?
Crocodiles may actually be the closest thing to dinosaurs that are still alive today. Many dinosaurs may have had the same scaly skin and creatures very much like crocodiles lived in the early Triassic Period, 200 million years ago, when the dinosaurs first appeared. But one difference between the two is that dinosaur’s legs were underneath, and not sticking out to the side like a crocodile’s.