MANILA, Philippines - At 180 million years old, the African crocodile is a specie from the giant reptile era, unlike its long-gone dinosaur cousins. Its thick, scaly, armor-like hide, razor sharp cone ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Deep within the shrinking rainforests of West Africa lives a crocodile that behaves nothing like the sluggish, log-like reptile ...

Mother Nature has ways of letting us know that she ought to be respected, and crocodiles are a fine example. Belonging to the Crocodylidae family — part of the reptilian order of Crocodilia (which ...

JOHANNESBURG — Calling all crocodile experts — South African police say you're needed to help capture thousands of crocs out on the lam. Thousands of crocodiles escaped a breeding farm along a river ...

In the Egyptian Western Desert, where red sandstones and green shales rise above the arid plains of Kharga Oasis, paleontologists have uncovered a fossil that fundamentally reshapes our understanding ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Studying crocodiles in some of the world's ...

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - When conservation biologist Matt Shirley discovered the world's newest crocodile species after years of sloshing through mangroves and swamps from Senegal to Uganda, the elation ...

A suspected slender-snouted crocodile is still loose in the Vaal River, and residents have been urged to stay out of the water.

Thirty dead crocodiles in Kruger National Park seem to have drowned because their tails were hardened with fat to swim Crocodile carcasses with hardened, fatty deposits in the tails are posing a ...