An enormous 16-foot long crocodile nicknamed the "swamp king" that terrorized ancient waters a few million years ago has been identified. The new species of prehistoric reptile, Paludirex vincenti ...

Amphibians were not the only victims snared in the swamp’s trap: It also claimed the lives of more than 50,000 prehistoric birds, horses, bats, and fish. [Related: Shifting ancient climates ...

July 4 (Reuters) - You might call it the "swamp thing." About 280 million years ago, a large creature built somewhat like a salamander but with frightful fangs prowled the swamps and lakes of what ...

Researchers have identified prehistoric fossils found in Australia in the 1980s as those of a massive “swamp king” crocodile. Scientists from the University of Queensland said the creature ...

Discovered in Colorado, a new prehistoric mammal species that lived during the age of the dinosaurs may have been a swamp-dweller. A team of paleontologists found the fossils near Rangely ...

Now, researchers say the swamp likely acted as a sex death trap for the ill-fated prehistoric amphibians. In a study published Wednesday in Papers in Paleontology, a team of Irish researchers ...

Scientist Claudia Marsicano looks at the fossil skeleton of the Permian Period salamander-like creature Gaiasia jennyae, in Namibia ...