Since Florida is the only state home to the American ... can bite with a force of 3,700 pounds per square inch, while a Nile crocodile can bite with a force of up to 5,000 pounds per square ...

This story appears in the November 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the summer of 2008 an American crocodile left Florida's Biscayne Bay, swam along a yacht-lined canal through the ...