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 ...

All through geologic time there have been extinctions mostly occurring at a fairly stable background rate. Occasionally, far ...

There are also suggestions that it was caused by a meteor strike, and some argue that it was not even a mass extinction event ...

Utah researchers say they believe they now know how existing crocodile, alligator and gharial species survived a pair of mass extinction events — information that could fuel future research.

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 ...

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 ...