Tainrakuasuchus bellator, a swift croc ancestor from Brazil, reveals that fierce reptile predators ruled Earth long before ...

Scientists have identified a new crocodile precursor that looked deceptively dinosaur-like and hunted with speed and ...

AN ANCIENT predator that lived before the dinosaurs was a “precursor” of the modern crocodile. Experts have shed light on the ...

A newly identified, armor-plated reptile from southern Brazil is rewriting what we know about life just before the age of ...

A newly discovered, carnivorous lizard ostensibly represents what most casual onlookers would perhaps perceive to be a ...

Its discovery helps illuminate a key moment in the history of life, the period that preceded the rise of the dinosaurs.” ...

An artist's illustration shows Deinosuchus riograndensis swimming with an early alligator relative in the wetlands of the Western Interior Seaway in southwestern North America, during the Late ...

A newly discovered carnivorous reptile that lived before the rise of dinosaurs has been identified in southern Brazil. Named ...

Scientists have documented the first "virgin birth" in a crocodilian—and the discovery suggests that dinosaurs may have also had this unusual ability. In a study published in the Royal Society journal ...

Scientists have observed the first known “virgin birth” in crocodiles. A female crocodile, kept alone in captivity for 16 years, laid a clutch of eggs that included a fully formed fetus which was ...

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