The ancient world holds secrets that continue to baffle archaeologists, historians, and curious minds today. From cities that ...

If you’ve watched sports on even a casual basis, you’ve likely noticed a trend when it comes to the team names and mascots.

At a glance, alligators and crocodiles look nearly identical. Both are massive reptiles with armored skin, powerful jaws and ...

An 85-million-year-old crocodile fossil is redrawing the prehistoric map of Europe and ruling out a late connection with ...

Researchers led by the University of Iowa have described and named a new crocodile species that roamed a region in Africa ...

The reptile was named Crocodylus lucivenator, meaning “Lucy’s hunter.” The name references Lucy, one of the most famous early ...

Scientists discover half-tonne, 15ft giant crocodile that hunted our ancestor ‘Lucy’ - Extinct crocodile species had peculiar ...

In biology and palaeontology (the study of extinct organisms) there are a few ways to estimate the age of an animal’s skeleton. One is the extent of fusion of sutures in the skeleton – how much the ...

Researchers led by the University of Iowa have described and named a new crocodile species that roamed a region in Africa ...

Meet Lucy's hunter, a massive, horned crocodile that likely terrorized early human ancestors in ancient Ethiopia.

Can crocodiles and alligators co-exist in the wild? The answer is yes – but there is only one place on the planet where this ...

For the first half of the twentieth century, Sudan was a joint protectorate of Egypt and the United Kingdom, known as the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium. Egypt and the United Kingdom signed a treaty ...