Crocodiles of today likely look very similar to Deinosuchus, except that Deinosuchus was about the size of a bus! Birds as a group are the closest living relatives to dinosaurs, and pelicans are ...

As far as reptiles go, crocodiles are closely related to dinosaurs. But they’re incredibly complex biological organisms that survived the meteor impact that ended the Cretaceous period roughly 66 ...

These included the ancestors of crocodiles ... is uncertainty about how the most ancient dinosaurs were related to one another and to their close relatives, the researchers ran their model ...

This group includes alligatoroids, such as Brachychampsa, as well as their close relatives the crocodiles and caimans. Many of these ancient animals were survivors of the Cretaceous-Tertiary ...

the modeling suggests that the early dinosaurs were at first vastly outnumbered by their reptile relatives. These included the "pseudosuchians"—the ancestors of modern crocodiles, some species ...

The study, published in Royal Society Open Science, compared dinosaur lungs to those of living crocodilians, such as crocodiles and alligator ... the biology of now extinct members of the dinosaur ...