Mother Nature has ways of letting us know that she ought to be respected, and crocodiles are a fine example. Belonging to the Crocodylidae family — part of the reptilian order of Crocodilia (which ...

A Nile crocodile measuring an astonishing 21 feet has been recorded as the largest ever. Researchers in Africa are amazed by this record-breaking apex predator.

While studying the critically endangered slender-snouted crocodile, researchers made a startling discovery — what they thought was one species is actually two. The discovery raises concerns about ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — The St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park announced the hatching of seven African Dwarf Crocodiles (Osteolaemus afzelii), marking a milestone in reptilian conservation.

More than a dozen crocodiles that went missing from breeding ponds after heavy rains that pummelled South Africa's Durban city and swamped a crocodile farm, have been found, a conservancy said ...

A resemblance between a long-lost African crocodile and modern American crocs goes beyond the shared bump on their snouts. “It really looks like an American true crocodile, but it comes from Africa,” ...

A cave-dwelling population of dwarf crocodile in Gabon is already notable for being orange. New research indicates that it has so heavily adapted to its extreme environment that it's splitting off to ...

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July 23 (UPI) --Novel bone structures found on the skull of Crocodylus checchiai, an extinct African crocodile species, suggest American crocodiles originated in Africa, according to a study published ...

A new species of crocodile has been discovered by researchers in Central Africa. Scientists from Florida International University's (FIU) Tropical Conservation Institute and George Amato of the ...

MIAMI – For nearly 85 years, crocodile experts knew of just three species in Africa – the dwarf, Nile and slender-snouted. Researchers, including Matthew Shirley from Florida International ...