The discovery of fossils in Egypt's Western Desert has rewritten what palaeontologists know about the evolution of crocodiles. Among the red sandstones and green shales above the arid plains of Kharga ...

Fossilized remains of a long-snouted crocodile-like reptile have been uncovered in Egypt’s Western Desert. Paleontologists from Mansoura University have named the new species of ancient crocodile as ...

Crocodylomorphs were a highly morphologically and ecologically diverse clade. These extinct crocodile relatives had a much richer variety of skull shapes than living crocodilians, suggesting a wide ...

New study uses digital reconstructions of living and extinct crocodylians to untangle the evolutionary history of long-snouted crocodiles. Although modern crocodiles, alligators, caimans, and gharials ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 80-million-year-old fossils revealed that this dyrosaurid species began to diversify millions of years earlier than previously ...

Crocodiles were not always the aquatic predators we know today. Living crocodiles evolved from ancient lineages that were equally at home on land as in water. According to a new study conducted by an ...

EVOLUTION OF THE CROCODILES IN EAST AND NORTH AFRICA = EVOLUTION DES CROCODILES EN AFRIQUE DU NORD ET DE LEST PAR EITAN TCHERNOV ...

More than 200 million years ago, life on Earth was experimenting with new forms. The Triassic period gave rise to animals that look oddly familiar today, yet belonged to very different lineages.

Crocodiles remarkably survived the dinosaur-ending asteroid impact due to their ability to endure long periods without food and their presence in less-affected habitats. These ancient reptiles possess ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: “Wadisuchus provides critical insights into the early diversification, palaeobiogeography, and cranial evolution of Dyrosauridae, confirming ...