After discovering a trove of mummified crocodiles in Egypt, researchers noticed something unexpected—these reptiles had an ...

Ancient, tough, and extremely dangerous to pretty much anything around them, crocodiles and alligators are actually under ...

From the mighty saltwater crocodile to the massive green anaconda, the world’s biggest reptiles are as impressive as they are ...

To be honest, their ability to make us glad we're not in their neighborhood! Unlike most reptiles, the Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) is highly social, organized and versatile. They've been ...

Nile crocodiles like this one will eat buffaloes and occasionally people, although humans are not their natural prey. They also scavenge meals, stealing other crocodiles' and other species' kills ...

chocolate-colored river once bristling with crocodiles, we stopped for the night at a forestry station, where I had a brush with the sole surviving member of the Malagasy megafauna—the Nile ...

In the new study, the researchers first looked into how the head scales developed in an embryo. They imaged Nile crocodile embryos using light-sheet fluorescence microscopy over multiple days. What ...

Huge, man eating Crocodiles. In Murchison Falls National Park, villagers make daily trips to the Nile to get water for washing and cooking. But every time they do so, they are at risk from the ...

The three National Parks serve as a stopover for migrant waterfowl and are major breeding grounds for the Nile crocodile, hippopotamus and a variety of venomous snakes. The Koobi Fora deposits, rich ...