Not even Steve Irwin would want to take on the beast known as "super croc." Sarcosuchus imperator, as it is technically known, was a prehistoric reptile and a contender for the largest crocodilian in ...

Some 110 million years ago a giant crocodile, which grew larger than a school bus and munched dinosaurs, reigned supreme over mid-Africa's inland rivers and swamps. Perhaps the largest croc ever, it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Saltwater crocodiles are the largest living reptiles on Earth, but they are far from the biggest crocodiles to ever exist.

The crocodile was a silent stalker, as long as a school bus and weighing almost 18,000 pounds. It cruised the rivers of what is now Saharan Africa looking for unwary dinosaurs to snatch. "It was ...

Newly unearthed skulls and skeletons in Africa have shed light on a 110-million-year-old crocodile, which was as long as a school bus and probably ate dinosaurs for breakfast. This week's Science ...

Crocodiles already inspire fear at their modern size, but today’s saltwater crocodiles are only a shadow of what once lived in Earth’s rivers and wetlands. The fossil record shows that some ...

A team led by University of Chicago professor Paul Sereno has unearthed the six-foot long jaws and skull of the largest crocodile to walk the earth. The crocodile, known to exist but without known ...

Scientists have come up with a remarkable new monster just in time for Hallowe'en, a giant crocodile big enough to gobble up a dinosaur. Massive is hardly a big enough word to describe the stunning ...

Paleontologists working in Niger's T¿n¿r¿ Desert have unearthed the fossilized remains of a crocodile that might give even Steve Irwin pause. Indeed, according to a report published today in the ...

The bones of a 40-foot crocodile that dined on dinosaurs and 12-foot-long fish have been discovered by researchers at Yale and at the University of Chicago in the Cretaceous rocks in Niger, Africa.

A MASSIVE, crocodile-like reptile that not only walked with dinosaurs but ate them too has been found in the Sahara. Newly discovered fossil skulls and partial skeletons of this 110-million-year-old ...