In southern Brazil, paleontologists have discovered a new species of ancient predator that predated modern crocodiles.

Courtney Brown is a professor at Southern Methodist University, where she directs a choir that performs music using one of ...

Buried in ancient clay outside the Queensland town of Murgon, scientists have uncovered Australia’s oldest crocodile ...

P aleontologists have confirmed their suspicions that Australia once had crocodiles that roamed forests and probably climbed trees, to jump on potential prey. Although evidence for this conclusion has ...

Crocodiles were not always the aquatic predators we know today. Living crocodiles evolved from ancient lineages that were ...

Mekosuchines were Australia’s own unique, local branch of the crocodile family. They dominated inland waters of the continent ...

In 2023, archaeologists from Spain and Egypt uncovered an extraordinary find at Qubbat al-Hawa, a necropolis near Aswan that ...

A newly identified fossil species, Wadisuchus kassabi, dating to the Campanian period (about 80 million years ago), extends the evolutionary history of Dyrosauridae and underscores Egypt’s Western ...

We’ve all heard the phrase “crocodile tears,” but do crocodiles actually cry? Interestingly enough, yes, they do, but not for ...

The incomplete skull of Nicrosaurus (formerly “Belodon“), one of the earliest-recognized phytosaurs. It is missing teeth and it did not have an extended downward extension of the palate (the outline ...

Scientists have long puzzled over the origins of a mysterious dinosaur excavated in the 1940s: Was it a young T. rex or another type ...

Scientists say the earliest long-snouted fossil crocodile, which was around 12 feet long, lived about 80 million years ago.