Earth was once ruled by giant reptiles. Tyrannosaurus rex, the king of tyrant lizards, crushed bones. Spinosaurus hunted in ...

A massive predator once roamed the Earth, towering over its rivals and casting a long shadow on the ancestors of T. rex. This ...

Beneath the turquoise waters of the South Pacific hides a massive secret—Zealandia, a sunken landmass stretching nearly two ...

Discover how crocodiles survived two mass extinctions thanks to their flexible diets and habitats, according to research.

The investigation began when Charles Helm, a co-author of the study and a scientific advisor at Tumbler Ridge Museum, documented three-toed tracks around Tumbler Ridge, a municipality in the foothills ...

In its 4.5 billion year history, Earth has undergone five mass extinctions and we are potentially in a sixth era of mass death. Today’s crocodylians are the surviving members of a lineage called ...

Most people think of crocodilians as living fossils—stubbornly unchanged, prehistoric relics that have ruled the world's ...

A massive predator once roamed the Earth, towering over its rivals and casting ... This discovery fills a critical gap in our understanding of dinosaur ecosystems during the Late Cretaceous period.

By Stephen Beech Crocodiles' ability to eat almost anything helped their ancestors survive two mass extinctions, suggests new ...

"There has been a bewildering array of different ecological roles for crocodylomorphs, from terrestrial herbivores and ...

Researchers examined teeth and skulls of 99 extinct crocodylomorph species and 20 living crocodylian species to reconstruct their dietary ecology and identify characteristics that helped some groups ...