Crocodilians are surviving members of a 230-million-year lineage called crocodylomorphs, a group that includes living crocodilians (i.e. crocodiles, alligators and gharials) and their many extinct ...

Deinosuchus was one of the largest crocodilians that ever lived, with a body nearly as long as a bus and teeth the size of bananas. From about 82 million to 75 million years ago, the top predator ...

"Crocodilians do have a sophisticated suite of behaviors," said Duncan Leitch, a biologist specializing in the neurophysiology of reptiles at the University of California, Los Angeles, who was not ...

WHO: New gharial moms Raani and Snaggle, father Big Boy (the biggest gharial in the U.S.), and the ectotherm keeper team at the Fort Worth Zoo. WHAT: The zoo is now the first in the nation to ...

Now researchers are peeling back the layers to find out how the surviving species came to be. There are around 28 living species of crocodilians found throughout the tropical and sub-tropical regions ...

Crocodilians, part of the crocodylomorph lineage, have survived two mass extinctions due to their adaptable lifestyles and generalist diets. This flexibility allowed them to persist while other ...