A University of Iowa-led research team looks forward to paleontologists paying more attention to lesser researched species, ...

Scientists in England have discovered a strange 215-million-year-old “greyhound crocodile” named Galahadosuchus jonesi.

More than three million years ago, in the area that is now Ethiopia, our early human ancestors lived in a landscape that ...

In a discovery that’s reshaping what we know about ancient crocodilians, paleontologists have identified a tiny land-dwelling croc species that once roamed southwest Montana during the Cretaceous ...

Saltwater crocodiles are the largest living reptiles on Earth, but they are far from the biggest crocodiles to ever exist.

A team of Egyptian paleontologists has uncovered a remarkable fossil that alters our understanding of crocodile evolution. Found deep in Egypt’s Western Desert, the newly identified species, ...

Lyme Regis Museum has shared the discovery of the rare crocodile maxilla (upper jaw bone) - discovered during one of its recent guided fossil walks along the Jurassic Coast. The fossil was discovered ...

Picture a crocodile. You’re likely imagining an armored predator gliding through murky water. Now scrap that. A newly identified ancient crocodile from the Late Triassic period looked almost nothing ...

Researchers in Australia have confirmed that a crocodile that lived 93 million years ago ate a juvenile dinosaur as its last meal. Fossils of the crocodile Confractosuchus sauroktonos, which means ...

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 ...