Crocodiles are some of the oldest reptiles on Earth with a history stretching back millions of years. While today’s crocodiles are already impressive predators, their ancient ancestors were often on a ...

A newly identified species of prehistoric crocodile, dating back to the Triassic period, has been named in honour of a Welsh schoolteacher. The crocodylomorph, whose fossils were unearthed near ...

Crocodiles and alligators are usually the apex predators in whatever environment they live in. Their massive jaws and armored bodies are the perfect weapons system against potential prey and foe alike ...

Researching their diet and ability to adapt to planetary upheavals to help protect the most vulnerable species today. Crocodiles are often seen as living fossils. Stubbornly unchanged prehistoric ...

In the Western Desert of Egypt, an ancient crocodile-like species was found. Mihajlo Stojkovic via Unsplash During the era of the late Cretaceous, the land that now sits in modern-day Egypt was far ...

SAO PAULO, Brazil — The 80 million-year-old remains of a land-bound reptile described as a possible link between prehistoric and modern-day crocodiles were displayed to the public for the first time ...

A miniature model in front of the larger skeletal version of the Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum, a dinosaur named partially after Ross Perot and his family, in the T. Boone Pickens Life Then And Now Hall.

Paleontologists have been on the trail of Deinosuchus since a pair of fossilized teeth were found in North Carolina in 1858. Since that time the reptile’s fossilized teeth, bony armor, skull pieces, ...

Kostensuchus atrox was a top predator which lived just before the extinction of the dinosaurs, and likely chomped on them A newly-discovered species of a large, crocodile-relative predator has been ...

From horseshoe crabs to crocodiles, some of these creatures have looked about the same for hundreds of millions of years.