It's harder to make the case for crocodilians.

而保护鳄鱼困难。

Crocodilian bones frequently turn up at such sites.

在这些地区，鳄鱼目动物化石经常被发现。

This has left the topic of what ancient crocodilians ate very much up for grabs.

这就留下了古代鳄鱼吃什么的话题。

Most crocodilians, he reminded people, preferred to dine on fish or molluscs rather than farmers.

人们，大多数鳄鱼宁愿吃鱼或软体动物而不愿吃农夫。

Nevertheless, this tooth is the first unarguable proof that crocodilians did indeed snack on dinosaurs.

但无可争辩的是，这颗是第一个鳄鱼目动物拿恐龙当点心的证据。

Crocodilians, he explained, were much more like birds than snakes.

解释道，与蛇比起来，鳄鱼明显。

On examining these marks more closely, they found a crocodilian tooth stuck in one of them.

在对这些痕迹进一步检查后，们发现一颗鳄鱼目动物齿嵌在其中一块骨头上。

Instead of theropod footmarks, they found those of crocodilians.

们发现的是鳄鱼的足迹，而不是兽脚类的。

There are 14 different species of crocodiles—not to be confused with other types of crocodilian, like alligators and gharials.

有14种不同种类的鳄鱼——不包含其类似鳄鱼的鳄目动物，比如短吻鳄和大鳄鱼。

When I say Boverisuchus was a crocodilian, I don't mean that it was a crocodile.

当我说 Boverisuchus 是鳄鱼时，我并不是说它是鳄鱼。

This is the skull of a gharial, an extant persiverous crocodilian.

这是鳄鱼的头骨，一种现存的坚韧不拔的鳄鱼。

Many modern crocodilians drag their prey underwater.

许多现代鳄鱼将猎物拖到水下。

He struggled to persuade people who lived alongside crocodilians to see them not as pests, but as friends.

努力说服与鳄鱼在同一生存环境的人们不把它们看成害虫，而是朋友。

And fossils show that marsupials and ungulates were abundant, as were crocodilians.

化石表明，有袋类动物和有蹄类动物数量众多，鳄鱼也是如此。

They argued that the tracks were  made by a crocodilian, instead.

们争辩说这些足迹是鳄鱼留下的。

And anything within that order, including modern animals like alligators and caimans, are called crocodilians.

该目中的任何动物， 包括短吻鳄和凯门鳄等现代动物，都被称为鳄鱼。

Like I mentioned before, the legs of Boverisuchus were much longer than a typical crocodilian's.

就我之前到的，Boverisuchus的腿比典型的鳄鱼长得多。

There is also evidence that they had pressure  receptors along the snout, much like crocodilians.

还有证据表明，它们的鼻子上有压力感受器，很鳄鱼。

No matter where it lived, Boverisuchus usually wasn't the only crocodilian around.

无论生活在哪里，Boverisuchus 通常都不是周围唯一的鳄鱼。

But all three of these crocodilians were aquatic, or at least semi-aquatic.

但这三只鳄鱼都是水生的，或者至少是半水生的。