Crocodiles already inspire fear at their modern size, but today’s saltwater crocodiles are only a shadow of what once lived in Earth’s rivers and wetlands. The fossil record shows that some ...

Credit: Getty Images This crocodile barely blinks—but his size is impossible to ignore. Yai is a hybrid of saltwater and Siamese, and at nearly 20 feet long, he remains one of the biggest living ...

Crocodiles are often described as survivors from a distant past. Creatures that have changed very little despite millions of years passing. Among them.

Crocodilians are often called living fossils, with their lineage dating back about 95 million years. They are members of the group Archosauria, which originated around 250 million years ago. The large ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are around 24 species of crocodiles currently on earth. Some crocodile species, like the dwarf crocodile, are small enough ...

An over 22-foot-long crocodile that ripped prey to death and another huge croc that sucked prey to its doom were at the top of the European marine food chain 150 million years ago, a new study finds.