This "living fossil" can grow as large as an alligator, has two rows of needle-sharp teeth, and such strong armor that it survived predatory dinosaurs.

Wildlife trappers in Florida captured an “absolute dinosaur of an alligator” after it wandered onto a road used by a primary ...

They are likely similar to the structures on those feather-pioneering dinosaurs 150 million years ago. The reason the gene doesn't cause the development of a fully feathered alligator is that ...

The study, published in Royal Society Open Science, compared dinosaur lungs to those of living crocodilians, such as crocodiles and alligator, and the lungs of modern-day bird species, such as the ...

It turns out that a dinosaur of the Triassic period, 248 to 206 million years ago, had anatomical features remarkably similar to those of a contemporary alligator or seagull. Witmer recently ...

Related: 'True rarity': Gigantic alligator gar caught and released ... period (145 million to 66 million years ago), when ...