Crocodiles can gallop like a horse.

It's likely horses you picture bounding across a landscape, not something scaly and low to the ground. However, a study published in Nature in 2019 noted that crocodiles have the "full range of quadrupedal footfall patterns used by mammals," meaning that they have the ability to gallop like a horse—and occasionally do! Of course, they don't look quite as graceful, but they can reach speeds of up to 11mph.

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