This apex predator is a type of sebecid crocodyliform with South American origins, according to new research led by the Florida Museum of Natural History.
Sebecid...
Crocodylians are surviving members of a 230-million-year lineage called crocodylomorphs, a group that includes living crocodylians (i.e. crocodiles, alligators...
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 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.
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A new species of early crocodyloid crocodilian being named Asiatosuchus oenotriensis has been discovered by a team of paleontologists from the Universidad...
Dinosaurs debuted on Earth’s stage in the aftermath of the Permian-Triassic mass extinction event, and survived two other Triassic extinction intervals...
Pseudosuchia is a group of archosaurian reptiles, defined as all species more closely related to crocodylians than to birds. Living representatives of...
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...
Non-avian theropod dinosaurs such as the iconic Tyrannosaurus rex have long been portrayed with their teeth fully visible, similar to living crocodiles....
Effigia okeeffeae, a shuvosaurid (an ancient relative of the crocodiles) that lived in North America during the Triassic period, was a specialist herbivore...
An incomplete fossil record hampers reconstructing the early evolution of caimans (subfamily Caimaninae). In new research, paleontologists from Germany...
Although paleontologists know now much about dinosaurs and their appearance, they have not known anything about how their cloacal region — the all-purpose...
A new genus and species of prehistoric crocodile, Paludirex vincenti, has been identified from fossils unearthed in Queensland, Australia.
Paludirex vincenti...
Young American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) have the ability to regrow their tails up to 18% of their total body length, according to a study...
Purussaurus, a top predator that lived in the wetlands of proto-Amazonia between 6 and 13 million years ago (Miocene epoch), hunted not only aquatic animals...
Fossils of a 13-million-year-old extinct gavialoid crocodilian from the Peruvian Amazon suggest that South American and Indian gavialoids evolved separately...
