Learn how fossils from Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park revealed that a Late Triassic crocodile relative may have started life on four legs before walking on two as an adult.

Learn how the newly identified crocodile Crocodylus lucivenator lived alongside Lucy’s species in ancient Ethiopia — and why ...

The reptile was named Crocodylus lucivenator, meaning “Lucy’s hunter.” The name references Lucy, one of the most famous early ...

Fossils reveal a small ancient reptile related to crocodiles, Sonselasuchus cedrus, that may have switched from four legs to two as it grew.

A rescue team from Australian Reptile Park successfully captured a freshwater crocodile found swimming hundreds of miles ...

Scientists discovered a crocodile relative that is 200 million years old and had two legs. The diversity of reptiles during the Triassic period is shown by this discovery, which is long before ...

In biology and paleontology (the study of extinct organisms) there are a few ways to estimate the age of an animal's skeleton ...

Sonselasuchus cedrus, discovered in fossils from Arizona, was a crocodile relative from the Triassic period that grew into an ...

After a gruelling 48-hour search in murky waters, Australian Reptile Park experts have shared the inside story of the late-night rescue mission to save a juvenile crocodile found thousands of ...

Imagine encountering a crocodile so rare that scientists once believed it no longer existed in the wild. This is the reality of the Siamese crocodile, a freshwater reptile native to Southeast Asia ...

The 4- to 11-feet-long reptiles had been kept as pets for over 10 years. — -- More than 150 crocodiles, alligators and caimans were recently rescued from a man in the Toronto-area who had been ...

A freshwater crocodile has been rescued from a creek near a Bunnings store, hundreds of kilometres from home, after a two-day ...