Wildlife rangers regularly work around animals powerful enough to turn a routine job into a dangerous struggle within seconds ...

First formally described in 1941 and named after the nearby Purus River, a new study in the Journal of Vertebrate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Saltwater crocodiles are the largest reptiles alive today, dominating rivers, estuaries, and coastlines across parts of Asia and ...

The crocodile was caught and relocated, an "inherently risky" process, after sparking multiple beach closures around Broome ...

Rare point-of-view footage has emerged of a hunter narrowly escaping the jaws of a large saltwater crocodile during a terrifying attack in the Northern Territory.

Some crocodiles are big, sure—but a few are so huge they end up in record books, news reports, or fossil displays. This list isn't based on local legends or guesses. Every crocodile here was either ...

A wildlife enthusiast along the lines of Steve Irwin enjoyed a close-up interaction with a huge crocodile on the island of Timor and called it a “humbling experience.” Damian “Wildman” Duffy, an ...

An international research team led by the University of Tübingen’s Dr. Márton Rabi has found that the giant crocodile Deinosuchus – often called the “terror ...

This is a reading comprehension exercise for children. It was written by Susan Fineman, a reading specialist in the New Haven, Conn., school district. Watchful and still, a monster crocodile waited in ...

An international team of paleontologists, geologists, geoscientists and Earth scientists has found evidence that a type of giant crocodile that lived millions of years ago in what is now North America ...