Crocodiles have ruled rivers and wetlands for over 200 million years, but a handful of animals push back hard enough to win.

The first four-legged vertebrates did not grow up like tadpoles after all. That idea has shaped the story of life on land for ...

A University of Florida study found invasive spectacled caimans are expanding into more of South Florida and the Everglades.

Life on our planet began in the water. Eventually, one branch of the fish family tree developed legs and came up on land.

A "dominant" crocodile-like predator with a big lump on its head preyed on man's ancestors three million years, ago, according to new research. Early humans - embodied by the iconic hominin Lucy - ...

The Animals That Can Actually Take Down a Crocodile in the Wild Aren't What You'd Expect ...

The sight of a saltwater crocodile basking on a mudbank is one of the most iconic and intimidating images of northern Australia. Yet the crocodiles that inhabit the region today are just the survivors ...

More than 3 million years ago, when our ancient ancestors embodied by the iconic Lucy were roaming the African landscape, they would have feared a big, bad crocodile with a prominent lump on its head, ...

You will never see it coming. Born to lurk, the saltwater crocodile is a master of stealth. These apex predators can wait perfectly still on the water’s surface, plunge to the bottom, or roll their ...

Baby crocodile-like early tetrapods called embolomeres. New fossil evidence suggests that these embolomeres did not undergo a metamorphosis the way that modern amphibians do when growing up, which ...