They’re agile on land. Intelligent in behavior. And…they can gallop like a horse? Learn what makes Cuban crocodiles so extraordinary.

A long time ago, strange predators roamed the Caribbean — not just birds and snakes, but land-dwelling crocodiles that sprinted after prey like hungry wolves. These ancient reptiles weren’t what most ...

Seventy million years ago, southern Patagonia was home to dinosaurs, turtles, and mammals—but also to a fierce crocodile-like ...

A fossil found in Argentina shows that up to the very end of the age of dinosaurs, they faced serious competition from other ...

During a dig in the Patagonia region, Fernando Novas at the Bernardino Rivadavia Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences in Buenos Aires and his colleagues unearthed the complete skull, spine and hips of ...

Sharks Unfortunately, since saltwater crocodiles are ambush predators and inhabit coastal areas where people live, there have been several instances of humans falling victim to these animals.

A newly discovered species of a large, crocodile-relative predator has been described via a remarkably well-preserved fossil ...

The end-Cretaceous was the age of the dinosaurs, an era populated by iconic prehistoric creatures like Ankylosaurus, ...

Seventy million years ago, southern Patagonia was a warm, seasonally wet landscape where dinosaurs, turtles, frogs, and ...

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Paleontologists have discovered the fossilized remains of a crocodile "hypercarnivore" that lived in what is now Argentina ...

Kostensuchus atrox, a dinosaur-eating predator related to crocodiles, revealed in study after fossils discovered in Argentina.