--- title: Watch this Crocodile Leap Out of the Water description: Crocodiles can launch themselves out of the water and there is video proof. canonical: https://time.com/4034475/crocodile-leap-water/ author: Mark Rivett-Carnac article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-15T09:48:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:08.104Z article:section: Science og:title: Watch this Crocodile Leap Right Out of the Water og:description: That's a seriously impressive bit of tail-waggling. og:url: https://time.com/4034475/crocodile-leap-water/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch this Crocodile Leap Right Out of the Water twitter:description: That's a seriously impressive bit of tail-waggling. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # You'll Never Believe How Far This Crocodile Can Leap Out of the Water ## Video: Waking the Dead: Bringing Extinct Species Back to Life [Watch (HLS stream): Waking the Dead: Bringing Extinct Species Back to Life](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/7mURxfr4.m3u8) (4:03)  _Published 2014-03-12. Conservationists and scientists have a saying, "extinction is forever." But soon biologists will clone long-gone animals in the hope to redefine that axiom to "DE-extinction is forever."_ by [Mark Rivett-Carnac](https://time.com/author/mark-rivett-carnac/) ## Mark Rivett-Carnac Sep 15, 2015 9:48 AM UTC by [Mark Rivett-Carnac](https://time.com/author/mark-rivett-carnac/) ## Mark Rivett-Carnac Sep 15, 2015 9:48 AM UTC Maybe it shouldn’t be surprising that an animal that has been an apex predator for hundreds of millions of years can launch itself out of the water. But it’s certainly impressive. As Trevor Frost, the _National Geographic_ photographer who captured this Instagram footage explained, “Crocodiles have incredibly strong tails.” See for yourself in the video. Just try not to think of crocodiles’ 3,700-pound-per-square-inch bite force, or their ability to swim at 25mph, or how some grow to 20 feet, or that they can be found in Africa, Asia, Australia and the Americas. Just think about how the crocodile looks like it is dancing. It is nothing more than a dancing crocodile. Watch this Crocodile Leap Out of the Water ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4034475/crocodile-leap-water/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4034475/crocodile-leap-water/"},"headline":"You'll Never Believe How Far This Crocodile Can Leap Out of the Water","datePublished":"2015-09-15T09:48:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:08.104Z","description":"That's a seriously impressive bit of tail-waggling","url":"https://time.com/4034475/crocodile-leap-water/","keywords":["animals","Newsfeed","Water","video","nature","shark"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mark Rivett-Carnac","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/mark-rivett-carnac/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/animals/","name":"animals"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4034475/crocodile-leap-water/","name":"You'll Never Believe How Far This Crocodile Can Leap Out of the Water"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Waking the Dead: Bringing Extinct Species Back to Life","description":"Conservationists and scientists have a saying, \"extinction is forever.\" But soon biologists will clone long-gone animals in the hope to redefine that axiom to \"DE-extinction is forever.\"","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/7mURxfr4/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-03-12T14:27:23.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/7mURxfr4.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4034475/crocodile-leap-water/","duration":"PT4M3S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4034475/crocodile-leap-water/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```