Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image credits: Unsplash Image credits: Unsplash Deep within the shrinking rainforests of West Africa lives a crocodile that ...

American alligators and South African crocodiles populate waterways a third of the globe apart, and yet both have detectable levels of long-lived industrial and household compounds for nonstick ...

Police in South Africa have recovered the remains of a man from inside a crocodile suspected of eating him in a high-risk operation involving a helicopter. Captain Johan Potgieter was lowered from the ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — The St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park announced the hatching of seven African Dwarf Crocodiles (Osteolaemus afzelii), marking a milestone in reptilian conservation.

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 ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Studying crocodiles in some of the world's ...