Mother Nature has ways of letting us know that she ought to be respected, and crocodiles are a fine example. Belonging to the Crocodylidae family — part of the reptilian order of Crocodilia (which ...

Capybaras, the world’s largest rodents, share South American waterways with caimans without regularly becoming prey.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers led by the University of Iowa have described and named a new crocodile species that roamed a region in Africa more ...

The Siamese crocodile is a freshwater crocodile native to Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam. Throughout the 20th century, demand for crocodile skins drove intense hunting, while live animals were ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Eight hatchlings from one of the world’s rarest crocodile species have been found in a wildlife sanctuary in eastern Cambodia. The baby Siamese crocodiles were found in a ...

Caimans, jaguars, anacondas, ocelots, harpy eagles, and other predators are known to eat capybaras in certain circumstances, ...

Thousands of crocodiles are found throughout North and South America, but these lakes play host to the biggest populations.

For the third year in a row, the Fort Worth Zoo has achieved the remarkable: growing the population of critically endangered gharial crocodiles! The Fort Worth Zoo has hatched these crocodiles for ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Studying crocodiles in some of the world's ...

The Fort Worth Zoo is celebrating historic conservation success with the third annual hatchings of the gharial crocodile. The two new gharials hatched on June 5 and June 11. The back-to-back-to-back ...

Imagine encountering a crocodile so rare that scientists once believed it no longer existed in the wild. This is the reality of the Siamese crocodile, a freshwater reptile native to Southeast Asia ...