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

It turns out it does matter what you eat, especially to crocodylians — crocodiles, alligators and gharials — a species ...

"Extinction and survivorship are two sides of the same coin. Through all mass extinctions, some groups manage to persist and ...

Utah researchers think they now know how existing crocodiles and alligators were able to survive the last two extinctions.

It all has to do with being able to adapt to ... and lived on land tended to be the ones that survived these mass extinction events," Irmis told KSL.com. "Whereas, things that were very ...

Some 215 million years ago in what is now northwestern Argentina, the terrestrial crocodylomorph Hemiprotosuchus leali prepares to devour the early mammal relative Chaliminia musteloides. (Image ...

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

Legend has it the Eastern hellbenders slithered here straight from hell and But in the age of humans, that evolutionary asset ...

Through all mass extinctions ... By the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event - punctuated by the meteor that killed the non-avian dinosaurs - most of the survivors are semiaquatic generalists ...

By the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event, most of the survivors were the semiaquatic generalists and one group of aquatic carnivores. Nearly all of today’s 26 crocodylians are semiaquatic ...

when it comes to swerving mass mortality events, being a jack of all trades really helps you come out on top. Being a dietary generalist is a really good way to help survive a mass extinction Dr ...