Surprisingly, the ancestors of modern crocodiles survived two mass extinctions throughout their 230-million-year history.

Learn why a comprehensive comparison of crocodile skulls, teeth, and jaws hints that generalists, not specialists are best ...

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 ...

Scientists have predicted that Earth will undergo a mass extinction in 250 million years, with extreme heat and rising CO2 ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

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

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

The idea that extreme heat could one day cause a mass extinction and end the dominance of humans is not as farfetched as it ...

The discovery of nearly 20 alligator-size amphibians that died together during the Triassic in what is now Wyoming is ...

The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological periods of the Mesozoic Era. It spans from 145 million to 201 ...

During the first period of the Mesozoic Era (Triassic Period), many new types of animals evolved to fill the available ecological niches created by a mass extinction event that took place at the ...