The hunters who captured, bred, and massacred the creatures to sell their skins have helped them bounce back, too.

Even crocodiles can set Guinness World Records. Cassius, an Australian saltwater crocodile ( Crocodylus porosus ), set the ...

Scientists have discovered a pristine fossil of a mummified saber-toothed kitten that had been frozen in the Russian tundra ...

Siamese crocodiles are making an unlikely comeback ... By the late nineties, they were thought to be extinct. But a 2000 ...

The fossilized leg bone of the terror bird went unidentified for almost 20 years. Nearly 12 million years ago, the largest ...

It also could pose a threat to people. Evidence of Cambodian reverence for Siamese crocodiles lives on in toothy carvings on ...

A team of researchers analyzed a 12-million-year-old fossilized bone discovered in Colombia's fossiliferous Tatacoa Desert ...

The appetite for crocodile skins for bags and other accessories had decimated populations to the extent that scientists thought they were extinct. But one last enclave of the species was found in ...

Siamese crocodiles are making an unlikely comeback ... By the late nineties, they were thought to be extinct. But a 2000 survey in the Cardamom Mountains in western Cambodia found a vestige ...

Siamese crocodiles are making an unlikely comeback ... By the late nineties, they were thought to be extinct. But a 2000 survey in the Cardamom Mountains in western Cambodia found a vestige ...

Even with its large stature, the meat-eating bird was likely preyed upon by an even more giant creature— a caiman from the genus Purussaurus, a crocodilian thought to be over 30 feet (9 m ...