Yes crocodiles can loose their teeth but they have a unique dental plan. They can grow new teeth all their lives. so if they lose a tooth or two – it doesn’t matter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
All of a crocodile’s teeth are the same – they don’t have canines and molars – just their usual sharp peg-like teeth. <\/strong>They have about 80 of them at a time and they are all conical and spaced out. These teeth are perfectly designed to hold on to anything for as long as it takes. They aren’t sharp-sided or curved as this could allow the prey animal to escape – they sink in straight and almost nail the prey in place. Perfect for drowning them quickly – the crocodiles preferred hunting technique.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThese teeth are also able to replace themselves if damaged – which they often are. <\/strong>The crocodile’s mouth slams shut at such a speed that individual teeth are often lost. Amazingly though, this triggers the new, waiting tooth to spring into life. Crocodiles can actually replace their teeth up to an estimated 50 times in their lifetimes – which can easily be up to 75 years of age.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fortunately for crocodiles – they can and will eat absolutely anything they can grab. With immensely powerful jaws and unrivalled stealth – anything is dinner. What Does A Crocodile Eat In The Wild? Crocodiles are well and truly carnivores: angry aquatic-dwelling ambush predators. Ideally, their prey needs to be in the water or at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7742,"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions\/7742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}