Unsplash Deep within the shrinking rainforests of West Africa lives a crocodile that behaves nothing like the sluggish, ...

Crocodiles are often imagined as huge, open-water predators. The West African slender-snouted crocodile is different. It is a secretive rainforest species, adapted to narrow waterways, shaded rivers, ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Studying crocodiles in some of the world's ...

Most Americans picture a crocodile as a massive, snapping predator. But deep in the rainforests of West Africa, there lives a crocodile that quietly hunts fish in narrow jungle rivers, has never been ...

For India’s critically endangered gharial, a fish-eating crocodile with a slender snout that ends in a bulbous growth, heat is emerging as a major threat, reports contributor Sneha Mahale for Mongabay ...

Mother Nature has ways of letting us know that she ought to be respected, and crocodiles are a fine example. Belonging to the Crocodylidae family — part of the reptilian order of Crocodilia (which ...

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - When conservation biologist Matt Shirley discovered the world's newest crocodile species after years of sloshing through mangroves and swamps from Senegal to Uganda, the elation ...

In the Egyptian Western Desert, where red sandstones and green shales rise above the arid plains of Kharga Oasis, paleontologists have uncovered a fossil that fundamentally reshapes our understanding ...