New research reveals mammals were abandoning trees millions of years before the asteroid hit changing everything we know ...

Utah researchers say they believe they now know how existing crocodile, alligator and gharial species survived a pair of mass ...

Surprisingly, the ancestors of modern crocodiles survived two mass extinctions throughout their 230-million-year history.

The Mesozoic Era extinctions formed the world as we know it today. Read about what caused them and which animals survived.

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 ...

An analysis of North America’s fossil record for the 18 million years before dinosaurs disappeared suggests the prehistoric ...

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

A groundbreaking study on dinosaur populations leading up to their extinction points to sampling biases within the fossil ...

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

The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological periods of the Mesozoic Era. It spans from 145 million to 201 ...

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

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 ...