Caiman used in a sentence

Caiman in a sentence as a noun

The crocs we have now must have all evolved from little caiman-like things, all their bigger relatives done in by the K-T event.

There was a large illicit trade in caiman skins around this time, one that Eastern were believed to be complicit in. An article from the two explorers goes into this in more detail, and it would seem a reasonable conclusion that it was one of the driving factors of the 'cover up'.