Paleontologists working in Brazil have identified a previously unknown species of archosauriform that lived about 240 million years ago and may belong...
Exceptionally preserved skin of Montsecosuchus depereti, an extinct crocodylomorph no larger than a house cat that prowled the tropical wetlands of Early...
CT scans of a decades-old specimen from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History show a new species of short-snouted crocodylomorph with unusually strong...
Paleontologists analyzing fossils from Ethiopia have described a previously unknown crocodile species that shared the landscape with a hominid species...
Named Wakkaoolithus godthelpi, this eggshell type belonged to mekosuchine crocodiles and represent the oldest crocodilian eggshells ever found in Australia.
Mekosuchine...
Paleontologists have discovered two partial skulls and three partial jaws from an early-diverging dyrosaurid crocodyliform in the layers of the Quseir...
Paleontologists have identified a new species of extinct crocodyliform from the fossilized remains of a juvenile individual found in southwest Montana,...
Paleontologists have unearthed a beautifully preserved skull and jaws as well as part of the postcranial skeleton of a previously unknown peirosaur species...
Neotropical crocodiles inhabit a broad geographic range with populations spanning from coastal, inland, and insular locations. In new research, scientists...
Crocodylians are surviving members of a 230-million-year lineage called crocodylomorphs, a group that includes living crocodylians (i.e. crocodiles, alligators...
Paleontologists working in northern Patagonia, Argentina, have unearthed the fossils of a previously unknown species of small rinconsaurian titanosaur.
Chadititan...
Understanding food chains in ancient ecosystems is one of the goals of paleoecology. Direct evidence for these interactions is rare and includes fossils...
Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of long-snouted notosuchian from the fragmentary remains found in Brazil’s Adamantina Formation.
Epoidesuchus...
Paleontologists have unearthed a 20-million-year-old fossilized skeleton of a species of the dugongid sirenian mammal Culebratherium with shark and crocodylian...
Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of metriorhynchid crocodylomorph from the Stadthagen Formation of north-western Germany.
An artist’s...
Pseudosuchia is a group of archosaurian reptiles, defined as all species more closely related to crocodylians than to birds. Living representatives of...
In a study published in the journal Papers in Palaeontology, paleontologists from the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart investigated growth rates...
Paleontologists have unearthed the fossilized remains of a new species of the mekosuchine crocodilian genus Baru in the Alcoota Scientific Reserve, about...
Taking someone else’s visual perspective marks an evolutionary shift in the formation of advanced social cognition. It enables using others’ attention...
