Tinted engraving of hatching Crocodylus niloticus from 2 volume "Abbildungen und Beschreibung merkwürdiger naturwissenschaftlicher Gegenstände"
Date 1818
Source https://www.facebook.com/stareobrazkizezwierzetami/photos/a.394289484049402.1073741828.393407200804297/724872617657752/?type=3
Author Johann Wolf (1765-1824)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crocodylus_niloticus00.jpg

The Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) is an African crocodile widespread throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, occurring mostly in the central, eastern, and southern regions of the continent and lives in different types of aquatic environments such as lakes, rivers and marshlands.