Black Caiman by Natural History Museum of Vienna

3D scan of a juvenile black caiman (Melanosuchus niger), that measures 1.08 meters, created by the Natural History Museum of Vienna under license CC Attribution-NonCommercial.
These carnivorous reptiles are one of the largest extant members of the order Crocodilia and can reach a length of up to 5 meters! Black caimans live along freshwater habitats such as slow-moving rivers and lakes in South America. Their size makes them the largest predators in the Amazon basin.

The original and more information can be found at sketchfab / NHMWien, the following changes were made:

• Geometry decimated from ~ 200k triangles to ~ 110k
• downsized to 20% of the original size
• object aligned
• STL file without errors

Attention:
The lower part of the animal (feet, belly, etc.) remained unchanged.It is therefore not smooth and can lead to problems with print adhesion. If you want to print the animal exactly like this, it is recommended to set the Z-axis in the slicer to +0.5 mm (for example) to have support material on the base (in Cura you have to disable the "Automatically drop models to build plate" option).