Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Deep within the shrinking rainforests of West Africa lives a crocodile that behaves nothing like the sluggish, log-like reptile ...

MANILA, Philippines - At 180 million years old, the African crocodile is a specie from the giant reptile era, unlike its long-gone dinosaur cousins. Its thick, scaly, armor-like hide, razor sharp cone ...

Police in South Africa have recovered the remains of a man from inside a crocodile suspected of eating him in a high-risk operation involving a helicopter. Captain Johan Potgieter was lowered from the ...

American alligators and South African crocodiles populate waterways a third of the globe apart, and yet both have detectable levels of long-lived industrial and household compounds for nonstick ...

Residents are advised to avoid swimming, skiing, tubing, and other water activities in the area until the animal is located, captured, and moved.

Crocodile roars – and moos – could help conservationists monitor populations of species that are hard to track through visual surveys. The big-eyed, tiny-bodied African dwarf crocodile (Osteolaemus ...

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.

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Studying crocodiles in some of the world's ...

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 ...