Anacondas are among the largest living snakes in the world. They are typically four to five meters long, though they can occasionally grow up to seven meters. A University of Cambridge-led research ...

Humans have contended with crocodiles for a really long time. The recent discovery of an ancient crocodilian species sporting a strange snout indicates the reptiles may have even preyed on our ...

In biology and palaeontology (the study of extinct organisms) there are a few ways to estimate the age of an animal’s skeleton. One is the extent of fusion of sutures in the skeleton – how much the ...

More than 3 million years ago, when our ancient ancestors embodied by the iconic Lucy were roaming the African landscape, they would have feared a big, bad crocodile with a prominent lump on its head, ...

Scientists have identified a strange early crocodile relative that may have looked somewhat like a flightless bird ...