Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image credits: Unsplash Image credits: Unsplash Deep within the shrinking rainforests of West Africa lives a crocodile that ...

American alligators and South African crocodiles populate waterways a third of the globe apart, and yet both have detectable levels of long-lived industrial and household compounds for nonstick ...

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 ...

While studying the critically endangered slender-snouted crocodile, researchers made a startling discovery — what they thought was one species is actually two. The discovery raises concerns about ...

West African crocodiles at Kachikally Crocodile Pool in Bakau, a town just outside the Gambia's capital city of Banjul, are much less likely to eat you if they've already had a hearty meal first thing ...

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 ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — The St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park announced the hatching of seven African Dwarf Crocodiles (Osteolaemus afzelii), marking a milestone in reptilian conservation.

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 ...