MIAMI – For nearly 85 years, crocodile experts knew of just three species in Africa – the dwarf, Nile and slender-snouted. Researchers, including Matthew Shirley from Florida International ...

Scientists working in Africa have uncovered a new crocodile species hiding in plain site, according to a paper published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Looking at the molecular data of the ...

A sharp-toothed fossil found in an Egyptian desert proves that sea-going crocodiles originated in Africa, according to scientists. They say the earliest long-snouted fossil crocodile that was around ...

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 ...

In the Egyptian Western Desert, where red sandstones and green shales rise above the arid plains of Kharga Oasis, ...

A resemblance between a long-lost African crocodile and modern American crocs goes beyond the shared bump on their snouts. “It really looks like an American true crocodile, but it comes from Africa,” ...

More than a dozen crocodiles that went missing from breeding ponds after heavy rains that pummelled South Africa's Durban city and swamped a crocodile farm, have been found, a conservancy said ...

Juvenile crocs rest by a large pool in a kind of hyper-alert somnolence. Metcroc is one of the dozen or so croc farms that produce the bulk of the 45,000 skins that the United Nations estimates are ...

As flood waters rose Sunday, a South African crocodile farmer near the border with Botswana was forced to open his gates to prevent a storm surge from destroying the property. And, no, this isn't the ...

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JOHANNESBURG -- An acclaimed outdoorsman who wrote movingly about testing himself against nature is presumed dead after a crocodile snatched him from his kayak while he led an American expedition from ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A crocodile killed a man while he was retrieving golf balls from a dam called Lake Panic at South Africa's flagship wildlife reserve, officials said Thursday. The crocodile grabbed ...