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- noun Plural form of
gharial .
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Examples
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The map shown above lumps in caimans with crocodiles because the reference map we used was for the order Crocodilia (which includes crocodiles, caimans, gharials and alligators).
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Incidentally, have you heard of gharials, the demented black sheep of Crocodilia?
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AFP/Getty Images A Thai Customs officer displays an Indian Roofed turtle in Bangkok on Thursday, after the Thai Customs Department seized 451 turtles and gharials worth more than $33,000, upon the shipment's arrival in the country.
Asia in Pictures 2011
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The crocodiles, known as gharials, have been found dead of an unknown disease in the Chambal River sanctuary.
Croc Update (Plague Edition) Bill Crider 2008
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The crocodiles, known as gharials, have been found dead of an unknown disease in the Chambal River sanctuary.
Archive 2007-12-30 Bill Crider 2007
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The lightweight cameras are attached to gharials that are released into the wild, where they record pictures every four seconds and monitor movement and behavior.
Archive 2009-11-08 Bill Crider 2009
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To the list of small crocodilians that inhabited the south-west Pacific, we can add gharials then.
Archive 2006-09-01 Darren Naish 2006
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The presence of this genus in both Venezuela and the south Pacific might seem odd given that living gharials are freshwater animals, but the fossil record shows that gharials formerly occurred widely in marine environments around the world.
Archive 2006-09-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Besides mekosuchines and gharials, we also know of a third crocodilian group that included island dwelling forms, and again the species concerned became extinct geologically recently.
Even more recently extinct, island dwelling crocodilians Darren Naish 2006
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Besides mekosuchines and gharials, we also know of a third crocodilian group that included island dwelling forms, and again the species concerned became extinct geologically recently.
Archive 2006-09-01 Darren Naish 2006
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