In the natural world -- where predators pounce, prey flee, and group members feed and sleep in solidarity -- animal behavior is glorious in its variety. Now, new research suggests there may be an ...

Watch a huge saltwater crocodile propelling itself through shallow waters pass a big bull shark with only a few feet between ...

Scientists have identified two new crocodile species in isolated Mexican habitats, challenging previous assumptions about the ...

McGill University researchers, in collaboration with Mexican scientists, have discovered two previously unknown species of ...

Costa Rica's National University launches a pioneering drone program to monitor American crocodile populations, using aerial ...

The prehistoric crocodile relative may have tolerated both freshwater and saltwater habitats, allowing it to conquer North American coasts in the Cretaceous. Paleontologists have been on the trail ...

Police said that a 29-year-old man climbed into an enclosure at a Philippines zoo and was promptly bitten by a female crocodile Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE.

Despite the breakthrough, scientists warn that both species could be at risk of extinction. Each population has fewer than 1,000 breeding individuals, with effective population sizes possibly ...

Scientists have identified two previously unknown crocodile species off Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, both of which may already be at risk of extinction due to small population sizes and habitat ...

Most people on earth have never heard about the Cuban crocodile and that's a shame because this critically endangered species ...

Those many millions of years have given birds time to evolve into some 11,000 species, and keeping track of all those species—not to mention their evolutionary history–can be quite the challenge.