In its 4.5 billion year history, Earth has undergone five mass extinctions and we are potentially in a sixth era of mass death. Today’s crocodylians are the surviving members of a lineage called ...

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

The Gagudju people of Arnhem Land believe that Ginga, a spirit ancestor who helped create ... He became the first crocodile. Aboriginal people have traditionally hunted crocodiles for their ...

Tiktaalik roseae had fish-like fins, a flattened skull (similar to a crocodile), and is thought ... terrestrial concerns as falling down. The first invaders were plants, which began creeping ...

By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels over and draws its last breath. The carcass is soon set on by hyenas, who tussle with a crocodile. The crocodile surfaces and grabs part of the animal ...