Reversion to a cold-blooded metabolism may have saved the crocodile lineage from extinction 66 million years ago when an ...

A new analysis of fossilized bones from crocodiles’ archosaur ancestors suggest they reverted back to cold-blood to become ...

New study uses digital reconstructions of living and extinct crocodylians to untangle the evolutionary history of long-snouted crocodiles. Although modern crocodiles, alligators, caimans, and gharials ...

Although modern crocodiles, alligators, caimans and gharials are restricted to the tropics, their fossil record tells a very different story. Ancient crocodylians once inhabited much of the globe and ...

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 ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: “Wadisuchus provides critical insights into the early diversification, palaeobiogeography, and cranial evolution of Dyrosauridae, confirming ...

Madagascar is a place full of unusual animals because it was isolated from other landmasses so long ago. Now scientists have learned more about a crocodile that once lived among humans and sported ...