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 ...

Analysis - 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 ...

Scientists discovered a crocodile relative that is 200 million years old and had two legs. The diversity of reptiles during the Triassic period is shown by this discovery, which is long before ...

Researchers discovered that a 215-million-year-old reptile started life on four legs and switched to two as an adult.

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

Learn how fossils from Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park revealed that a Late Triassic crocodile relative may have ...

Sonselasuchus cedrus, discovered in fossils from Arizona, was a crocodile relative from the Triassic period that grew into an ...

Scientists wanted to know why the iconic triceratops had such an unusually large nose compared to most species on Earthj.

The Spinosaurus is a sail-backed, crocodile-snouted dinosaur that Hollywood depicted as a giant terrestrial predator capable of taking down a T. rex in Jurassic Park 3. Then they changed their mind ...

Do the bones of all Nile crocodiles have the same number of growth marks as their age? And can such growth rings be counted to accurately gauge the age of these reptiles? Is this also an accurate ...

A research team led by Dr. Márton Rabi from the Biogeology Department of the University of Tübingen, together with Máté ...