One might expect a dig site in some far-off desert when thinking of a paleontological discovery. Nevertheless, new finds are often made in museum collections.
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Paleontologists have discovered a fossil of a 180-million-year-old crocodyliform that they say is a long-sought missing link in the evolution of some ancient...
An international team of paleontologists from the Natural History Museum, London, the University of Birmingham and Virginia Tech has formally given an...
A new species of marine reptile that lived about 163 million years ago (Middle Jurassic epoch) has been identified from a fossil found near Melksham, Wiltshire,...
Named Razanandrongobe sakalavae, the ancient predatory crocodile had a deep skull and powerful jaws with enormous serrated teeth that are similar in size...
Paleontologists have long wondered what the earliest dinosaur relatives looked like. Most assumed that they would look like dwarf dinosaurs and walk on...
Using DNA analysis, scientists have confirmed the capture of Nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus) in South Florida.
A Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus)....
Fossils of a 13-million-year-old extinct gavialoid crocodilian from the Peruvian Amazon suggest that South American and Indian gavialoids evolved separately...
Long-legged wading birds that nest above resident American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) for protection from mammalian nest predators may also...
A new species of prehistoric crocodile that dates back 231 million years ago (Carnian stage of the Triassic period) has been identified by a team of paleontologists...
An international team of paleontologists has described three new species of caimans that lived in the swampy waters of what is now northeastern Peru during...
Crocodiles think surfing waves, playing ball and going on piggyback rides are fun, too, according to Prof Vladimir Dinets from the University of Tennessee,...
Crocodiles and their relatives such as alligators and caimans often work in teams to hunt their prey, according to a study carried out by Dr Vladimir Dinets...
Paleontologists have discovered a new species of crocodile-like reptile that swam in the rivers of what is now Colombia during Paleocene, about 60 million...
Some species of bees and butterflies enjoy an occasional taste of crocodile tears, according to Dr Carlos de la Rosa from the La Selva Biological Station...
According to a team of biologists led by Dr Vladimir Dinets from the University of Tennessee, certain species of crocodiles are able to climb trees as...
The African slender-snouted crocodile (Mecistops cataphractus), long thought to be a single species, is actually two distinct species, according to an...
US researchers led by Dr Vladimir Dinets from the University of Tennessee have found that two croc species – mugger crocodiles (Crocodylus palustris)...
Nile crocodiles, American alligators and other crocodilians enjoy fruits along with their normal meat-heavy diets of mammals, birds, and fish, according...
An international group of paleontologists writing in the journal Nature Communications has described two new prehistoric species of crocodile from fossils...
