In its 4.5 billion year history, Earth has undergone five mass extinctions and we are potentially in a sixth era of mass ...

Most people think of crocodilians as living fossils—stubbornly unchanged, prehistoric relics that have ruled the world's ...

For scientists and conservationists, knowing how species survive planetary crises can lead to more effective protection of vulnerable species.

By Stephen Beech Crocodiles' ability to eat almost anything helped their ancestors survive two mass extinctions, suggests new ...

Researchers examined teeth and skulls of 99 extinct crocodylomorph species and 20 living crocodylian species to reconstruct ...

A groundbreaking study on dinosaur populations leading up to their extinction points to sampling biases within the fossil ...

"There has been a bewildering array of different ecological roles for crocodylomorphs, from terrestrial herbivores and ...

Utah researchers think they now know how existing crocodiles and alligators were able to survive the last two extinctions.

By the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event - punctuated by the meteor that killed the non-avian dinosaurs - most of the survivors are semiaquatic generalists and a group of aquatic carnivores.