A crocodile that lived in Egypt around 45 million years ago has been given a new identity, nearly a century after its fossil ...

Researchers now re-describe the creature as Herugavialis cairensis, translated as something like "Heru's gavial of Cairo." ...

The specimen was long mislabeled, according to a new study. Paleontologists identified it as a previously undescribed genus ...

Fossils of a newly recognized Egyptian crocodile species come from the same rocks as the Great Sphinx, and a missing snout ...

Heru, the Egyptian name for the god Horus, is associated with the religious tradition surrounding the monument. The ...

The ancient reptile has just two living relatives, both of which are endangered ...

A skull from the now extinct ‘Herugavialis cairensis’ was discovered in the 1920s—and is also missing part of its nose.

A skull found nearly a century ago has helped Egyptian and European researchers revise part of the crocodile family tree, shedding light on the Mediterranean's prehistoric wildlife and revealing an ...

The Sphinx is one of ancient Egypt's most enigmatic monuments, and now scientists have found that it could be hiding a very unusual secret.

What do you think of when you think about ancient Egyptian mummies? Perhaps your mind takes you back to a school trip to the museum, when you came face to face with a mummified person inside a glass ...

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 ...

CT scans helped determine that the fossil unearthed in Egypt came from a distinctly different ancient species.