An alligator's bite lands at roughly 2,125 pounds per square inch, one of the strongest bites ever measured in any living animal. But here's the twist:
The muscles that open its jaw are so weak, a person can hold an alligator's mouth shut with one hand.
Every bump along an alligator's jaw hides a tiny pressure sensor, thousands of them, more sensitive than the nerves in a human fingertip:
So in pitch-black water, an alligator can feel a single ripple from a raindrop and pinpoint exactly where it landed.
In the dry season, alligators dig their own ponds using nothing but their snouts, claws, and tails. When every other water source disappears, fish, turtles, and wading birds crowd into these "gator holes" to survive.
One species that can help keep an entire wetland ecosystem alive.
But even one of the most enduring survivors is threatened by plastic pollution:
Alligators sit at the top of the coastal marsh and wetland food chain, and researchers have found plastic in their stomach contents, passed up from the crabs and shrimp the gators eat.
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