Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New fossil evidence from crocodile-like early tetrapods known as embolomeres suggests they grew without undergoing amphibian-style ...

The first four-legged vertebrates did not grow up like tadpoles after all. That idea has shaped the story of life on land for decades. Early tetrapods, the ancient animals that gave rise to mammals, ...

A newly discovered ancient crocodile cousin from a 210-million-year-old Triassic crocodile fossil reveals a powerful prehistoric crocodile predator built to crush larger prey. A newly identified ...

A saltwater crocodile lurks in a pool of brown water so murky that the massive animal vanishes completely before the feeding ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A massive Burmese python coils tightly around the armored body of a large crocodile during an intense struggle in a muddy river.© ...

A nearly intact fossil from southern Patagonia has revealed a fierce crocodile relative that lived about 70 million years ago, just before the age of dinosaurs came crashing to an end. The animal, ...

There are plenty of examples of mutualism in nature. Be it the rhinosaurus and the oxpecker, clownfish and sea anemones, or sharks and remora fish, there are unlikely besties in the wild that work ...

When the ocean’s top hunter meets a river’s ruthless ruler, nature holds its breath. Sharks and crocodiles rarely cross paths, but when they do, the encounter is explosive. Scientists say these ...