Honestly, I’m VERY disappointed in how popular culture portrays crocodilians as a uniform green or brown color, because in reality they are BEAUTIFUL animals with a LOT of color variation.
Like, here are some of the more striking specimens I could find of various species (keeping in mind that there tends to be a lot of variation even within each species):
American Crocodile
Smooth-Fronted Caiman
Yacare Caiman
Mugger Crocodile
Black Caiman
Gharial (the dark blues on this one are amazing)
Cuban Crocodile (the lighting’s pretty reddish but you can still see the speckled pattern very well, and its freakishly long limbs)
American Alligator (I’m ESPECIALLY salty that the gorgeous blacks and blue-grays of these guys tend to be turned into green for cartoons and such)
Orinoco Crocodile
And the crown jewel of beautiful crocodilians, the Tomistoma





















