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

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

Imagine a crocodile that would rather sprint than swim. It dashes over dry ground on long, slender legs like a reptilian ...

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, ...

A recent discovery of an ancient cousin of modern day crocodiles known as the "warrior crocodile" in Brazil has reshuffled ...

A new “apex predator” dinosaur species has been discovered based on its fossil, unearthed in Argentina with a crocodile bone stuck in its jaws. The species has been named Joaquinraptor casali, and was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Paleontologists have often determined how old a dinosaur was by counting the growth rings in its bones. Just like with trees, it was thought that each ring corresponded to a single year of age. But ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - A Brazilian scientist has identified fossils of a small crocodile-like reptile that lived during the Triassic Period several million years before the first dinosaurs. The fossils ...