Nature is weird, if you haven't noticed. Waxwing birds get drunk on fermented fruit, there are sharks that lay eggs which look like corkscrews, and Brazil has a tree so huge it looks like a lush, ...

Meet Lucy's hunter, a massive, horned crocodile that likely terrorized early human ancestors in ancient Ethiopia.

Mother Nature has ways of letting us know that she ought to be respected, and crocodiles are a fine example. Belonging to the Crocodylidae family — part of the reptilian order of Crocodilia (which ...

A ranger has called for more crocodile safety awareness, after a man was attacked in Western Australia's north last month. The ABC understands the incident occurred on the Kimberley's Dampier ...

Paleontologists have often determined how old a dinosaur was by counting the growth rings in its bones. Just like with trees, ...

Red dwarfs make up the vast majority of stars in the galaxy. Such ubiquity means they host the majority of rocky exoplanets we've found so far—which in turn makes them interesting for astrobiological ...

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Every animal on Earth is part of a relentless race where survival depends on being faster, stronger, smarter, or better adapted than the competition. From crocodiles and bats to sharks, platypuses, ...

Can crocodiles and alligators co-exist in the wild? The answer is yes – but there is only one place on the planet where this happens.

The bumblebees avoid drowning by combining underwater gas exchange with anaerobic metabolism, according to a new study.