More than 75 million years ago, a giant reptile known as the “terror crocodile” roamed the waters of North America.

An international team of paleontologists, geologists, geoscientists and Earth scientists has found evidence that a type of ...

One of the largest crocodilians that ever lived preyed on dinosaurs. New research has found the fearsome Deinosuchus had a ...

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

Deinosuchus had a wide snout like an alligator’s. But unlike alligators, it thrived in salty waters. It lived between 82 and ...

Scientists now say Deinosuchus was not an alligatoroid at all. Unlike its freshwater cousins, it retained the salt glands ...

In its 4.5 billion year history, Earth has undergone five mass extinctions and we are potentially in a sixth era of mass ...

Discover how crocodiles survived two mass extinctions thanks to their flexible diets and habitats, according to research.

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

Utah researchers say they believe they now know how existing crocodile, alligator and gharial species were able to survive the last two extinctions — each tens of millions of years ago — which ...